In the book, she points out that ‘enfreakment emerges from cultural rituals that stylize, silence, differentiate, and distance the persons whose bodies ’ ( Garland-Thomson 1996: 10). Although there has been growing scholarship on the ‘freak discourse’ (see Bogdan 1996 Kerchy and Zittlau 2012), this study adopts what may be the most currently referenced, which is Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s ( 1996) Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Consequently, the discussion illustrates how various characters in the comic resist the othering, and strive to change the world that they inhabit into a more inclusive one. With examples from various moments in the title, the article advances the contention that the othering, or ‘enfreakment’ of individuals based on sexual and species difference is an untenable process, based as it is on unstable and fluid premises and assumptions of species superiority and heteronormativity. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ award-winning comic book series, Saga. That is a point that anchors the argument in this article, with illustrations from Brian K. In fact, as Lennard Davis ( 1995: 23) observes in Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body, it is a human construction. ‘“Freak” labels disability as spectacle’ ( Leonard Kassuto 2015: 246).
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