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

Delves into the cultural history of the freak show and offers nuanced contextwithin the larger social changes in the United States. Reveals disturbing truths about early twentieth-century prejudices and opens a space for exploring the profound social impact of contemporary events. THOMAS FAHY Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at Long Island University, USA, C.W. Post Campus. He is the author of Staging Modern American Life (Palgrave), as well as three novels. He is also the editor of several collections, including The Philosophy of Horror ; ConsideringAaron Sorkin ; Considering David Chase ; and Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre. INDICE: 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's Breakfast at Brian's Epilogue

• ISBN: 978-0-230-12098-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés