Review journal article http://www.kbjournal.org/foy.
Discuss Kenneth Burke’s stage of “mortification” as outlined in his book Iron Law of History and as it pertains to wrestler “Snake the Jake” Roberts.
Abstract: The article examines the thirty-year career arc of professional wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts by employing a Burkean approach to understanding Roberts’s symbolically resonate performances of mortification. Through performances of mortification both during and following his active wrestling career, Roberts is transformed into a purifying agent for wrestling fans’ collective guilt over systemic “demons” of addiction and human frailty that have haunted professional wrestling and its fandom increasingly since the 1990s.
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