Carti in categoria Literature & Biography

Starting from the theories of the grotesque, femininity, mother-daughter, mother-son relationship, the present study attempts at analyzing how stereotyping in the patriarchal society can gender identity construction. The study relies on the analysis of a series of works by the British postmodern writers Jeanette Winterson and Angela Carter stretching between the 1970s and 1980s. It is a period of great turmoil for the British society, mostly influenced by the plethora of feminist movements, wave...