T. Fahy
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2011
9780230120983
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination
Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780230120983
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230120983
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
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