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This paper reads Angela Carter's Heroes and Villains and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman as the writing of tattoo, in which Carter inscribes and criticizes the violence of patriarchal dominance over women by overtly depicting victimized women's (face) tattoos. Though Carter is well known for her sadeian discourse, the victimhood of her heroines needs to be read in terms of masochistic strategy. Since her writing of tattoo plainly reveals tattooing men's oppression of tattooed women, the ambivalent strategy of displaying women as victims is equivalent to the masochist's one. As Deleuze puts, a masochist is one who reveals the paradox of the Law/Power while performing the play of ‘beating and beaten’ relations. Likewise, Carter's writing of tattoo makes us reconsider the relationships between dominance/victim, sadism/masochism, the tattooing/the tattooed, feminine/masculine through heroines' subversion of dichotomies by emphasizing the ruler's violence along with defying being tattooed.
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Angel Carter, Heroes and Villains, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, tattoo, masochism
