Discourse of Feministic Myth in Angela Carter’s Shadow Dance

Abstract

This paper focuses on the feministic myth in Angela Carter’s Shadow Dance and shows how these elements are worked out in the novel. Shadow Dance is of male protagonists but Carter here present women as victims, they center on erotic triangles that suggest Carter’s ambivalence toward female characters, thus the male protagonists in this novel appear sensitive and torment, involved only secondarily and unsuccessfully with women but tied to showy, dandified, manic masculine change characters whose desire for violence cover their own sexually indefinite desires.