Title: Angela Carter's book of wayward girls and wicked women : an anthology of stories /
Authors: Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.
Publisher: Virago,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Women Fiction.
Abstract: "Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all with one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as role models for all women. Elizabeth Jolley celebrates that rare phenomenon, the female confidence trickster and in Leonora Carrington's beautifully surreal tale, a hyena is persuaded by a debutante to take her place at the ball - and go dressed to kill. Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice."--Publisher's description.
Contents: Introduction -- The last crop / Elizabeth Jolley -- The Débutante / Leonora Carrington -- from The Gloria stories / Rocy Gámez -- Life / Bessie Head -- A Guatemalan idyll / Jane Bowles -- The young girl / Katherine Mansfield -- Three feminist fables / Suniti Namjoshi -- The rainy moon / Colette -- Wedlock / George Egerton -- Violet / Frances Towers -- The plums / Ama Ata Aidoo -- A woman young and old / Grace Paley -- The long trial / Andrée Chedid -- The loves of Lady Purple / Angela Carter -- The earth / Djuna Barnes -- Oke of Okehurst / Vernon Lee -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Aunt Liu / Luo Shu.