EN310 Lecture Notes - List Of Body Horror Media, Foxfire, 12012
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Actually transgressive-symbolic inversion-gang: the victim-invert social norms-wimpy, buttinger, petshop owners, and hammonds (city) Victimizers now the victims-shifted their way of thinking: hooking and gender-overturning gender norms by johns becoming powerless in sexual relations, legs=overturning social norms in gender. Private suberversions/personal revolutions: dominant society retaining its power- victims still move on; police and justice system affiliate boy gangs and control gang. Adulthood & finances: hooking-law initially believed to be no; promiscuous cannot overcome kellogg, homestead-oldwick house-foxfires flame and wick but with finances and responsibility textual signal flame is dying. Ambivalent and carnival: at its most defined where everyone knows it, gang comes apart and disappears as does legs, photograph of legs at end of novel. Female: pg 325-microscope magnify the tiny dots and magnify the spaces between them. Magnifying that less graspable: legs undermining patriarchy since performs it so well and performance and absolute. Truth: closer she looks the bigger the gaps like her writing the truth, maddys relationship to language.
