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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2004  
         
  Article:   THE MONSTROUS STATE IN FEMINIST DYSTOPIAS: FROM MOLAR IDENTITY TO MOLECULAR BECOMINGS.

Authors:  CARMEN BORBÉLY. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This essay explores the mapping of corporeality and feminist figurations of bodily identity undertaken by postmodern dystopias such as Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains, The Passion of New Eve and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Particular emphasis will be laid on their outlining of a ‘micropolitics of desire’, whereby the female protagonists in these fictions can overcome repressive, structured, hierarchical forms of identity and embark on a ‘nomadic politics’ of transgressing, trespassing, breaking through molar aggregates. This movement towards forming new alliances, along molecular lines that are horizontal, dispersive rather than vertical, integrative, will be examined with a view to these narratives’ heterotopian outlining of a postmodern form of embodied subjectivity, the Body without Organs.  
         
     
         
         
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