Take the truly terrible story of Blue Beard, who murders each of his wives, and keeps each victim in a room in his castle for the next wife to find. What Angela Carter does in their retelling is to suggest some alternatives. How often in fairy stories are young women, nearly always young and beautiful women, rescued by handsome men, or their fathers, from sleeping, or being eaten, or some other gruesome fate? What about the other girls? What about the women who were no longer virginally attractive to men? Just pause a moment to consider that phrase ‘ latent content’. The stories are of different lengths, one as long as 34 pages, another only two.Īngela Carter explained that she wanted ‘to extract the latent content from traditional stories’. They were published in 1979, at the height of feminism’s second wave. This collection of ten short stories are based on well-known tales, such as Blue Beard, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast and Puss-in-Boots.
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