GROTESQUE BODIES AND SPACES IN ANGELA CARTER’S THE PASSION OF NEW EVE
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2018
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Angela Carter’s widely-acclaimed novel The Passion of NewEve is a dystopian text in which a bleak, rotten, and destructive settingprovides the backdrop for the problematization of such issues asgender and politics, and the collapse of binaries. It is significant tofocus on the novel’s dismantling of binaries, especially in terms of theproblematized distinction between human and non-human, biologicalbody and machine, inside and outside, man-made and natural. Suchdismantling is especially manifest in the physical characterization ofEve/lyn, the Mother, Zero, and Tristessa. All of these characters arepresented as forms of excess. Moreover, the spaces they inhabitreinforce and perpetuate their excessiveness as well as grotesquedepictions. In this respect, this paper argues that grotesque bodiesembedded within grotesque landscapes in The Passion of New Evemakes it possible to have an ecological discussion of the relationshipbetween the body and the environment.