A Feminist Carnivalesque Ecocriticism: The Grotesque Environments of Barbara Gowdy's Domestic Fictions.

The author gives reasons that Barbara Gowdy's grotesque fiction creates freaks common via domestic realism, and in doing so her narratives form bizarre the hyper-regulated and controlled environments of late modernity with their nuclear bombs, closet-like suburbs, and animal deaths. The author asserts that Gowdy's carnivalesque domestic realism creates a contribution to the material turn in ecocriticism and feminism.