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Re-Presenting Charles Baudelaire/Re-Presencing Jeanne Duval: Transformations of the Muse in Angela Carter's "Black Venus"

2004; Oxford University Press; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/fmls/40.1.1

1471-6860

Rebecca Munford,

French Literature and Poetry

This article examines Angela Carter's “Black Venus” (1985) as an intertextual re-working of Charles Baudelaire's iconographic representation of Jeanne Duval as muse in Les Fleurs du Mal (1857 and 1861). Although “Black Venus” has received relatively little critical attention, this article proposes that it is crucial to a consideration of Carter's self-positioning as a feminist writer and, in particular, her equivocation towards her predominantly male French literary influences and intertexts.