Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience? Symposium

Venue: Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Date: Saturday 5 March 2022, 9am-6pm

 

Registration now open!

Tickets: £40 on campus / £30 online from https://store.chi.ac.uk/product-catalogue/sussex-centre-for-folklore/events

A conference to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Angela Carter, whose reputation as a leading British writer of fantastical literature remains undiminished three decades after her untimely passing. We will highlight, celebrate and interrogate Angela Carter’s legacy, wrestle with her angels and demons, and pickpocket im/pertinent answers to a wealth of ever-more timely questions.

 The Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction at the University of Chichester invites proposals for papers, creative writing readings, panel discussions and events for our forthcoming symposium, Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience?

The symposium will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Angela Carter, whose reputation as a leading British writer of fantastical literature remains undiminished three decades after her untimely passing. Its theme also reflects the new decolonial and multi-genre direction of the Centre. In face-to-face and online events, we will highlight, celebrate and interrogate Angela Carter’s legacy, wrestle with her angels and demons, and pickpocket im/pertinent answers to a wealth of questions including:

  • with its focus on world fairy tales, Japanese culture, Black and trans characters, de Sade, and its mercurial movement between fantasy, the Gothic, SF, poetry and journalism, how radical was Angela Carter’s work during her life, and now?
  • how might current queer, feminist, intersectional, modern Gothic, speculative fiction and decolonial studies scholars engage with her work?
  • how have new generations of Beyond Realist creative writers responded to Carter’s legacy – from capitalising on the subtle whiff of literary respectability she brought to these genres, to exploring and extending her transgressive reach?
  • how has Carter’s legacy been taken up beyond the literary world, in relation, for example, to art history, cinema and theatre?

Download the Angela Carter Programme PDF