Take the classic fairy tales you know and love, add a splash of violence, a sprinkling of sex, a healthy dose of feminism, and you’ve got Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. This collection of stories provides a shadowy and provocative exploration of tales such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding Hood, revised and rewritten in a bewitchingly dark style. Angela Carter was one of the first ‘fairytale feminists’, and if you’re interested in seeing what happens when Beauty becomes the Beast, then this is the read for you. But be warned: happy endings are never quite what you’d expect in this quirky collection.
Posted 12:37pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Monique Hodgkinson.
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