![]() ![]() “‘The Spectacle of her Gluttony’: The Performance of Female Appetite and the Bakhtinian Grotesque in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” Journal of Modern Literature 31.4 (2008): 116–130. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. “Animals, Becoming.” Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īirke, Lynda. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The intersection of these concerns crystallizes early in the present narrative as Miss Lick, the benefactress who offers to finance the procedure to relieve Miranda of her tail, does so precisely because the stub is fetishized by men who exploit it as a reason, if not an excuse, to treat Miranda as a sexual object. But far from seizing on this conflict in isolation, Dunn marries the struggles of the grotesque and animal Other with what she regards as a well-intentioned, yet pernicious branch of feminist ideology. Its present-day frame and bookended past events surrounding the Binewski’s family carnival are meant to pit markers of difference, or otherness, against societal expectations of and desires for normalcy. Clearly, questions of the body lie at the heart of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love. Complicating this present-day frame is the standing of the mother, Olympia (or Oly) Binewski, as a hunchbacked dwarf who hopes to prevent her daughter, Miranda, from having her tail surgically removed-a tail that, while little more than a stub, serves as a genetic birthmark that links Miranda not only to her biological mother and father, a boy with dolphin-flippered limbs, but also to the Binewski Carnival Fabulon that exhibited both parents to countless crowds decades prior. On its surface, the present-day frame of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love captures the story of a mother and the daughter whom she abandoned at birth but whose life she wishes to improve and on the periphery of which she wishes to reside in secret. ![]()
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