Aging and its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions, and: Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious (review)
The assault on gender boundaries is discussed in reference to Woolf s Orlando and Wittig's The Lesbian Body and Les Guerilleres. These texts extend the tradition of Menippean satire, particularly in their parodie inversion of genre and their manipulation of literary and social traditions. Techniques of Subversion concludes with a chapter on Djuana Barnes's Nightwood and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. By linking these two novels, one a dark and evasive narrative and the other a comically parodie allegory, Booker draws further parallels between abjection and the carnival as aspects of transgression.