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Possessions are sensational, scintillating, schadenfreude. They are stories told wordlessly in articulate shrieks and moans, twisted backs, stony grimaces. Stories told to make sense of what was happening. And stories told to end. Dispossession was a form of conclusion and an act of coherence.
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Uszkalo, K.C. (2015). Reconciliation | Dispossession | Exorcism. In: Bewitched and Bedeviled. Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498229_6
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