Freak shows and the modern American imagination : constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
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Freak shows and the modern American imagination : constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
（American literature readings in the 21st century）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index
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Description
This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why? And how does this response reflect larger social changes in the United States at the time? Fahy examines this change and how artists responded.
Table of Contents
Introduction 'Helpless Meanness': Constructing the Black Body as Freakish Spectacle War-Injured Bodies: Fallen Soldiers in American Propaganda and the Works of John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner Worn, Damaged Bodies in the Great Depression: FSA Photography and the Fiction of John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, and Nathanael West 'Some Unheard-of Thing': Freaks, Families, and Coming of Age in Carson McCullers and Truman Capote Breakfast at Brian's Epilogue
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