Fluids, cages, and boisterous femininity: The grotesque transgression of patriarchal norms in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
The article will show that in Nights at the Circus, Carter’s use of the themes of food consumption and excrement operate as both a grotesque means of emancipation from a feminine point-of-view, and a carnivalesque challenge to subversive patriarchal norms and deconstruction of arbitrary patriarchal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Language and Cultural Education |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2017-0022 |