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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462326603321

Autore

Flaugh Christian

Titolo

Operation freak [[electronic resource] ] : narrative, identity, and the spectrum of bodily abilities / / Christian Flaugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-7735-4027-X

1-283-83482-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

843.91409

Soggetti

Abnormalities, Human, in literature

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover            ""; ""Title Page                 ""; ""Copyright Page                     ""; ""Dedication Page                      ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Introduction: Freaks, Spectrums, and Francophone Narratives of Ability                                                                             ""; ""1: Locations and Locutions of Ability Operations                                                       ""; ""Interlude One""

""2: Excising Conjoined Citizenship or, the Beheading of Linguistic Abilities in Jacques Godbout's Les tetes  Papineau""""Interlude Two""; ""3: Regenerating Family Fortune: Incising Religious Orders of Gender and Procreation in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable and La nuit sacree                                                                                                                                                      ""

""Interlude Three""""4: Witchy Ways: Transregional Mutilations of Race and Supernatural Abilities in Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba sorciere Noire de Salem                                                                                                                                           ""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index""