Old Women, Young Souls: History as a Living Matter

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2002Suggested citation
Oró Piqueras, Maricel;
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(2002)
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Old Women, Young Souls: History as a Living Matter.
Anuari de filologia. Secció A, Filologia anglesa i alemanya, 2002, vol. 24, núm. 11, p. 1-8.
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/47084.
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The passionate and deceptive life stories of the protagonists in Angela Carter’s Wise Children (1990) and Rose Tremain’s The Cupboard (1984), women in their seventies and eighties, are entangled with historical events that influenced England, Europe and the rest of
the world. In these novels, Angela Carter and Rose Tremain challenge not only notions of ageing by presenting elder protagonists who are lively and strong, but also the idea of history as unique, true and unquestionable by conferring on them the status of story and
historytellers.