Freaks: between normality and deviation. Monstrous births and human phenomena from the man-hen to the Barnum circus
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https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-9251/13889Keywords:
Teratology, freak, abnormality, bizarre.Abstract
The essay focuses on the theme of natural teratology, or the study of deformities, and above all on the positive figure of the freak, which I am going to analyze from a social and spectacular point of view. The analysis will go on probing the territories of the bizarre and the marvelous as presented by the Great American Museum of Barnum.
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