Reading McCullers through the lens of Bakhtin’s subversive and metamorphic form of grotesque representation allows us not only to pinpoint but also to underscore and celebrate those radical—and overlooked—features of her novels: resistance and disobedience, sexual and gender anomaly. In this way, the author brings McCullers’s critical heritage in line with recent debates on gender and sexuality and shows how her work is extremely relevant not only in contributing to these debates but also in highlighting their limits and gaps.

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