The Passion of New Eve (1977) is a Dystopian novel by Angela Carter.
It's about a British man, Evelyn, who is forcibly given gender-reassignment surgery by Militant Feminists and made into "a New Eve". It's a feminist satire on Feminism in general, Freudianism, and all other sorts of things. Also features a Dystopic America in the process of caving in on itself.
Tropes in The Passion of New Eve:
- All Psychology Is Freudian: Mother's reverse-Oedipal philosophizing parodies Freudian psychology.
- Body Horror: A lot of it, but the blue ribbon goes to Mother—the self-created Fertility Goddess. Her army of Amazons have each sacrificed a breast to her, which she has grafted onto herself, so she has two giant rows of tits.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Just when the Evelyn/Eve joke has been made one too many time, the narrator (at this point, just post-castration, "turned into my own diminutive, Eve, the shortened form of Evelyn") says"Perhaps, I thought, they had utilised my tender body because they couldn't resist the horrid pun of my name, with all its teasing connotations."
- Marshmallow Hell: This trope is inadequate to encompass Carter's description of Evelyn being sMothered by Mother's gargantuan mammarian underworld.
- Meaningful Name: Eve(lyn), Lilith, and Zero. The title-character even hangs a lampshade on how ridiculous it is that a man named Evelyn would be the subject of Mother's transgender transformation.
- No Name Given: Mother.
- Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The whole surgery, turning Evelyn into Eve in a couple months. Of course, this was written in 1977, so it might actually have been even more science-fiction back then than it is now.
