Joseph Bristow is Professor in the Department of English in UCLA. His recent books include The Fin-de-Siècle Poem: English Literary Culture and the s.
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In their reading of The Human Centipede , Edwards and Graulund talk about the combination of human and animal features of the characters within the film as well as melding body parts and individuals, but they also extend the bodily effects of the film to the audience in the form of laughter, disgust, etc. They talk more about this kind of expansion beyond the borders of texts, politics, and definitions in the next chapter on exaggeration, extravagance, and excess.
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In this, they touch on the expansive body, the power of camp, transgressive texts, and the ways in which all three can attract and repulse the theme of chapter six. The fine line between exploitation and agency in terms of the relationship between the freak and the norm leads to the next chapter about deformity and laughter: The who, what, and why of that laughter can present unsettling questions about hierarchies dealing with the body, such as those distinguished by disability, race, class, and sexuality.
Chapter eight turns from the thematic approach of these previous chapters to specific theoretical categories that engage with these body issues.
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In all three treatments of queer desire, the grotesque disrupts and unsettles taboos in order create new forms of queerness beyond same-sex desire: The last sections expand the grotesque geographically to encompass postcolonial depictions of transgression and excess chapter nine and global directions in the most current thought conclusion. This discussion includes readings of Salman Rushdie, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Shani Mootoo, and Grace Nichols in the ways in which their texts work with types of expansion and eruption that challenge and recreate boundaries.
Each individual section includes key concepts as well as representative texts and pertinent sources so as to give readers an introduction and a direction for further study. To this end, the text concludes with a glossary of terms and an extensive bibliography. Engagingly-written and accessible, this volume will be a significant teaching tool for students, instructors, and scholars of the Gothic as well as of political, economic, and social bodies that transgress their own classifications through this literary concept.
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Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders. The Author by Andrew Bennett. Autobiography by Linda Anderson. Comedy by Andrew Stott. Theory, History, Practice by Rob Pope. Crime Fiction by John Scaggs. Discourse by Sara Mills. Gender by David Glover.
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