“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn

This article analyzes Jonathan Lethem’s neuronovel, Motherless Brooklyn (1999) in the light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque and laughter. The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and appropriating the nickname “...

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Main Author: Pascale Antolin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2020-07-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/13941
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