Angela Carters work is a collage of discourses and genres. The challenge of finding a critical
framework complex and accurate enough to classify her work has remained. The spectacular and
the pragmatic threads of her texts framed by extreme seriousness and witty humour are
unravelled with the help of a different metaphor denoting enigmatic spaces conterdiscourses
borders of otherness heterotopia. Five novels out of nine five short stories out of
thirty-five as well as Carters two film adaptations are filtered through a term extricated
from its medical and geographical roots which emphasizes the ambiguity as well as the
dialogic interaction of Angela Carters often discordant discourses that have kept her at the
top of the literary canon.
