Passion et carnaval Le numéro de clowns dans Nights at the Circus d’Angela Carter

In Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, published in 1984, the clowns’ turn reads like a parodic feminist rewriting of Christ’s Passion. Through the critical use of risus paschalis and the carnivalesque, Carter subverts the Christian myth as the foundation of the patriarchal order as well as the psychoanalytical myth of Oedipus as the foundation of the subject.