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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"conjoined twins"”.
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
How might contemporary narratives regarding conjoined twinning, a form of bodily difference which disrupts taken for granted notions of “biological” individuality, trouble normative discourses of corporeality, individuality, selfhood, and the human? This thesis traces the configuration of conjoined …
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In this dream I don't have to close my eyes : as told by Siamese twins Iris and Lily Hutton
… on the life histories of Iris and Lily Hutton, conjoined twins who work in a circus sideshow. The poem has as its central concerns the effects of representation on subjectivity and the notion of the split subject. Iris and Lily perform their conjoined identities in a circus sideshow, where they …