Narrating the Nervous, Bulimic Body-Text in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve
Narrating the Nervous, Bulimic Body-Text in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve

Summary/Abstract: The aim of my paper is reveal that The Passion of New Eve is a painfully passionate text fuelled by the grotesquely nervous feminine body marked by pain. I wish to highlight that as the novel unveils the grotesque agony of “becoming woman,” the transitional polyphonic text is cruelly torn apart, painfully shattered into pieces by contradictory yet fatally-embracing narrative voices: male impersonator, feminist, feminine, feminized transvestite, transsexual autobiographical, or transgender voices “become legion” so as to enact the confusion of the effeminate psychosomatic symptoms of body dysmorphia and to model the painful yet revelatory passion of the decomposing feminine body-text.

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