ArticleAuthors: Nycole Prowse (2015-04)
Literature's ability to provide a different repertoire of experience from those presented in other discursive frameworks and institutions situates it as a unique force in the function of ‘worldmaking.’ Drawing on Bakhtinian notions of literary discourse and the carnivalesque, this article examines the subversive nature of drug literature to create ‘a world inside out.’ Within drug literature, rules are inverted, authority mocked, the non-conformists are centre stage, and the ‘world’ is perceived and reconstructed via them. A comparative analysis of male and female drug literature in the works of William S. Burroughs and Anna Kavan also reveals the implication of gender on literary wor... 
