The Passion of New Eve is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1977. It is a magic realist post-feminist novel, in which the female characters dominate the males. In the novel, Angela Carter satirises America as portrayed in films, and from her own experience of the United States, particularly in terms of gender.
At the start of the novel, Evelyn, a male English professor is taking up a new post in a university in New York. His tribute to...
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The Passion of New Eve is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1977. It is a magic realist post-feminist novel, in which the female characters dominate the males. In the novel, Angela Carter satirises America as portrayed in films, and from her own experience of the United States, particularly in terms of gender.
At the start of the novel, Evelyn, a male English professor is taking up a new post in a university in New York. His tribute to Tristessa de St Ange, the American silent movie star, on his last night in England is to be given fellatio by a girl he takes to see one of her films.
He arrives in a dystopian New York, a city in its last stages of rotting death, overrun by huge rats and human emotions distilled to their most primeval. He becomes fascinated with Leilah, an exotic young African American night club dancer, and while they have a short relationship he makes no emotional link, seeing her only in terms of sex. He becomes repelled by her when she falls pregnant and...
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