Grotesque Encounters with Adolescence: Reading CarsonMcCullers’ The Member of the Wedding  

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Bell, Catherine S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1 (2011), page 67-73.
Topik: coming-of-age literature; the grotesque; adolescent development
Fulltext: Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2011, 67–73.pdf (90.21KB)

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This paper takes the grotesque as a model of subjectivity that offers compelling inroads to understanding adolescence. Bakhtin notes that the grotesque ‘seeks to grasp in its imagery the very act of becoming and growth, the eternal, incomplete, unfinished nature of being’. I argue that Carson McCullers’ novel, The Member of the Wedding (1946), is largely about this ‘act of becoming’ in its heightened form, at the time of early adolescence, and I explore the ways in which puberty estranges 12-year-old Frankie Adam from her old body and her old self, resulting in encounters with the uncanny.

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