Title
- American Literature Readings In The 21st Century
Attribution
Thomas FahyPublication Details
Book1st edPalgrave Macmillan2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.B64 F34 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900 and 1950. The freak body in art not only reveals disturbing truths about early twentieth-century prejudices, but it also becomes a space for exploring the profound social impact of contemporary events such as the Great Migration, World War I, and the Great Depression. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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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
ISBN
- 1403974039
- 9781403974037
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