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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Freaks"”.
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Freaks and frauds or beating the odds? Exploring notions of visibility and validation for transgender music teachers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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In this dream I don't have to close my eyes : as told by Siamese twins Iris and Lily Hutton
… circus sideshow, where they are objectified as "freaks" and presented as spectacles. When the twins leave the sideshow stage, cultural constructs of gender and of the normalized body affect the ways in which they experience their subjectivities. This narrative poem explores how this affects their …
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Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers
… wrote that southern literature is rife with freaks because only southerners were able to recognize the freakish, I maintain that writers such as O’Connor created so many ugly women as their own way of “being ugly.” These authors utilize the “ugly plot” instead of the expected courtship or …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… and real revelation comes only when freaks are first in line to heaven. In chapter three, I focus particularly on the idea of carnivalesque laughter in Porter’s fiction, examining both “The Circus” (1934) and “Holiday” (1960). Porter’s early story “The Circus” becomes almost a parody …
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The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman
… androgynous gender casts them as scapegoats and freaks within a society whose normativity is founded upon a strict masculine-feminine binary; and how their existence in a particular space - the American South - adds unconventional pressures as these tomboys realize their sexuality while enduring …
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Power and transgression: margins, crossings and monstrous women in selected works of Bharati Mukherjee and Angela Carter
… with how women and foreigners are framed as 'freaks' or monsters in order to devalue their significance within hegemonic patriarchal structures. Ironically, this framing can be recuperated so that it simultaneously subverts power through parody, excess and violence, and creates a gap for …
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Sighting Circus: Perceptions of circus phenomena investigated through diverse bodies
… exploration of the history of the exhibition of freaks in circus, the lack of differently abled performers in contemporary circus is interrogated. The phenomenon of ‘crip-face’ or ‘crip-drag’ in which the mannerisms of the disabled are adopted by able-bodied performers is investigated in …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… Brontë, Thackeray, and Melville were not mere freaks, “sports” who were born decades or centuries ahead of their time and who consequently wrote with a brilliance and complexity that only contemporary readers can recognize and appreciate. To suggest this is to oversimplify and to do these …