“The Bloody Chamber: A Postmodernist resignification of Perrault’s Bluebeard” addresses the question of how new meaning is made when there exists a performative relationship between two texts. From this perspective, the paper will explore the relationship between Perrault’s folk tale Bluebeard (1697) and Angela Carter’s novella The Bloody Chamber (1979) in an attempt to show the way in which intertextuality may be used in Postmodernist fiction to revise past literary production and the representation of female characters. Her Gothic novella articulates some of the concerns Second-wave Feminists made noticeable in the 1970s such as female sexuality, gender equality and domestic violence to question the legitimacy of the female role and sexuality as constructed by the patriarchal society. Carter subverts traditional representation of women as passive, innocent and naïve by foregrounding the fact that texts are constructions that shape the worldview of both characters and readers alike. This will be done following the theoretical background of authors such as Brian McHale and Gerard Genette among others.