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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

Fahy, T.

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Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Literary CriticismAnthropology20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0230120989
ISBN13: 9780230120983
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 7 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
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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