LEADER 04829nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910786500303321 005 20211029190731.0 010 $a0-7735-4027-X 010 $a1-283-83482-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773587878 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276774 035 $a(EBL)3283586 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000850994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11481614 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000850994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10837749 035 $a(PQKB)11660020 035 $a(CEL)444689 035 $a(OCoLC)820941356 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00231224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332542 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10626203 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL414732 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/gfpr8v 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332542 035 $a(DE-B1597)656883 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773587878 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276774 100 $a20121130d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOperation freak$b[electronic resource] $enarrative, identity, and the spectrum of bodily abilities /$fChristian Flaugh 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 311 $a0-7735-8787-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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 "" 327 $a""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"" 330 $aIn Operation Freak, Christian Flaugh embarks upon an exploration of the intricate connection between the physical bodies and narratives that, subjected to all manner of operations, generate identity. The author spotlights such voluntary and involuntary acts to show how discourses of ability, disability, and bodily manipulation regularly influence the production in and of various Francophone texts. Flaugh's foundation is the critical examination of mutually-informing narratives: Francophone novels that hyperbolically signal normative discourses through quintessential "freaks" (monstres) such as the Siamese twin, the bearded lady, and the exotic witch; and the related sociocultural master narratives from North America, North Africa, and the Caribbean. Employing disability and freak culture theories alongside studies of identification and narrative, Flaugh's close readings move beyond polarized discussions of "disabled" and "non-disabled" bodies. They expand such discussions to articulate how ability - like identity and narrative - is impermanent. It passes and it is passed throughout a spectrum at the same time that it intersects regularly with various narratives of identity like citizenship, gender, and race. Each chapter reveals how "operation" is a profit-driven identification process informed by abilities and constantly reproduced by surgeons, slave masters, writers, and the "freak" protagonists themselves. An unflinching look at such manipulation, Operation Freak illustrates the undeniably visceral relation between bodily ability, identity, narrative, and normality carved onto the body of the freak of culture (monstre de la culture). 606 $aAbnormalities, Human, in literature 606 $aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature 615 0$aAbnormalities, Human, in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature. 676 $a843.91409 700 $aFlaugh$b Christian$01492287 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786500303321 996 $aOperation freak$93714696 997 $aUNINA