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Terri
Unregistered User
(7/28/01 12:25:42 am)
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Marina Warner
Did someone on this board mention that Marina Warner had written an essay on Donkeyskin or The Girl With No Hands....or did I just dream that? I've been going back through old posts and I can't find the reference....
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Helen
Registered User
(7/28/01 9:26:01 am)
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Angela Carter book ...
Dear Terri:
Unfortunately, I just packed this away, or I'd check the exact title for you ... in the recently published book of essays on the work of Angela Carter, there is an essay/short story by Marina Warner that discusses Carter's influence upon her work, and offers a really haunting version of "The Girl With No hands" inspired by Carter. In Warners story, the girl is in a mental institution, driven to self mutilation by the societal fixation upon feminine beauty. Her hands are replaced with silver bells to allow her to recover some modicum of attraction (in her own mind) as well as a means of self expression. I could be getting the details a little wrong, but that's what I remember of it. I'm not sure if tthat's the story which you have in mind, but it's a terrific piece (maybe I should just unpack now? skip the rigomarole of moving, and just camp out amidst my books?).
Hope this helps,
Helen
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Kate
Unregistered User
(7/28/01 3:08:49 pm)
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Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale
is the name of the collection you are thinking of, Helen, published by Wayne State University Press last year (and an issue of Marvels & Tales, originally), edited by Danielle M. Roemer and Cristina Bacchilega and introduced by Marina Warner. At the end of her introduction (or it could be the forward), Warner includes the story you're looking for, Terri. Strangely, I can't find my copy at present, even though I was reading it just three weeks ago!
(I think I mentioned this version of "The Girl Without Hands" in a string sometime back--I think maybe it was as a suggestion for a story to use for a performance . . .)
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(7/28/01 11:13:53 pm)
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Article
There was an article earlier this year in The Atlantic about a syndrome (I forget what it is called) in which people who are otherwise healthy undergo operations to have limbs removed, limbs they somehow believe are diseased or dead.
Reading the messages above, I thought about this article.
Jane
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Terri
Unregistered User
(7/29/01 12:37:35 am)
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Thanks
Thanks for the info, everyone. I think we received a review copy of the book on Angela Carter -- but its in Tucson and I'm in England, alas. It seems to be a law of nature that whenever I'm looking for a book, it's in the *other* house. Jane, you must run into this too, between Mass. and Scotland. Sigh.
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Helen
Registered User
(7/29/01 7:25:19 am)
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By Jove ...
...that's it! Thanks for the title, Kate: tip-of-the-tongue syndrome drives me batty. Funny how none of us can find the book as readily (very fairy-tale-ish in a way). Have a great weekend, everyone!
Helen
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Kate
Unregistered User
(7/29/01 10:41:30 am)
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Apotemnophilia
Jane--it is something like that. That article truly obsessed me. I'm so glad you mention it here in this context--reminds me to re-read it. For anyone who hasn't read it, here's a link:
www.theatlantic.com/issue...lliott.htm
Kate
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