Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carters problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Carters private life and her public writing. He begins with Carters assertion that it was through her sexual and emotional life that she was radicalized, drawing extensively on the British Librarys recently archived collection of Carters private papers, journals, and letters to show how that radicalization happened and what it meant both for her worldview and for her writings. Through close textual analysis and a detailed study of her papers, Dimovitz analyzes the ways in which this second-wave feminists explorations of sexuality merged with her investigations into surrealism and psychoanalysis, an engagement that ultimately led to the explosively surreal allegories of Carters later, more complex, and more accomplished work. His study not only offers a new way to view Carters oeuvre, but also makes the case for the importance of Angela Carters vision in understanding the transformations in feminist thinking from the postwar to the postfeminist generation.
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