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Decolonizing Feminine Sexuality: Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' as a Postcolonial Feminist Text" Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" is a seminal work of postcolonial feminist literature that decolonizes feminine sexuality by subverting centuries-old patriarchal and imperialist narratives. Through her Gothic retellings of classic fairy tales like Bluebeard and Beauty and the Beast, Carter exposes the intertwined legacies of; Imperialism's eroticization of colonized female bodies, reducing them to exotic objects of desire Patriarchy's domination of women's sexuality,enforcing silence, shame, and submission Racism's erasure of marginalized female voices, marginalizing their experiences and desires Carter reclaims feminine sexuality as a powerful force of mresistance, autonomy, and self- definition,empowering her female protagonists to wield desire as a weapon against oppressors. By doing so, "The Bloody Chamber" challenges traditional notions of female passivity, redefining feminine sexuality as active, assertive, and liberated.