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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"freak show"”.
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… examines the function of the circus and the sideshow in the work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are pressured …
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
… lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves physically mutating in unexpected and disturbing ways.
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
… lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves physically mutating in unexpected and disturbing ways.
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… as those that took shape in the context of the freak show, as well as nineteenth-century teratological and ethnographic discourses. It pays particular attention to contemporary postcolonial and diasporic writers who have mobilised conjoined twins as figures to explore tensions and ambivalences …