Absurdist Witchcraft in Truman Capote’s “Children on their Birthdays”
“Children on their Birthdays” was published at the end of the 1940’s, at a time that was seeing the rise of the theater of the absurd. The short story is about the unexpected arrival of an extraordinary young girl, Miss Bobbit, in a small place in Alabama. Her strange ways quickly cause quite a stir...
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Danubius University
2011-07-01
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Series: | Acta Universitatis Danubius: Communicatio |
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Online Access: | http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/communicatio/article/view/1068/856 |