Angela Carter: Glam Rock Feminist

Michele Roberts re-assesses the work of Angela Carter in the Independent:

"One of Carter's distinctions was not to win any of the major literary prizes. She was too quirky, too original, too avant-garde, too subversive ... Our culture only makes space for one woman writer per generation to be hailed as avant-garde. We seem very uncomfortable still with the idea of women as intellectuals. Carter didn't fit into the middlebrow slot reserved for women writers. She writes in a European rather than an American tradition, drawing on writers as diverse as Italo Calvino on the one hand and Georges Bataille on the other."

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article1096313.ece