CfP: The Freak and Its Discontents
Submitted by ccarlin on 21 July 2019 - 7:30pmTrinity College Dublin, 29-30 Octobre 2019
Funded by the French Department of Trinity College, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TCD), the Society for French Studies (SFS) and the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF).
‘There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.’ -Diane Arbus