Angela Carter, Donald Trump and the American nightmare

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Abstract

It seemed some kind of cosmic synergy that the week Donald Trump was elected POTUS, I happened to finish reading a particular novel, published in 1977, by feminist surrealist Angela Carter. The backdrop of The Passion Of New Eve is an America aflame, torn apart by contradictory combinations of visions of freedom and prosperity on one hand and the right to bear arms on the other that so characterise the country. For me, the surprise of Trump’s victory was accompanied by the idea that an Englishwoman may have predicted its aftermath 40 years previously. Carter extrapolates from the social struggles of the decades leading up to New Eve's publication to produce a surreal novel in which the fissures of American society have broken it completely apart.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages8
JournalOverland
Volume29.Nov.16
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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