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Author:

Fahy, Thomas Richard.

Title:

Freak shows and the modern American imagination : constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote / Thomas Fahy.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

x, 192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Body, Human, in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in art.
Freak shows--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.

Contents:

'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.

Series:

American literature readings in the 21st century

ISBN:

9781403974037
1403974039

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62421313
(OCoLC)71347894

LCCN:

2005056619

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)