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Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote

Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote

Hardcover

Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1403974039
ISBN13: 9781403974037
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 27 2006
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.05 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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