Sideshow U. S. A. Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination

Name: Sideshow U. S. A. Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
Price: 10.95 USD
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ISBN: 9780226005393

ISBN-10: 0226005399

ISBN-13: 9780226005393

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rachel Adams

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Description:

A staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. This book reveals the image of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing specimens.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Overture: Recovering Otis Act One



Freaks of Culture: Institutions, Publics, and the Subject of Ethnographic Knowledge



Sideshow Cinema Act Two



"A mixture of delicious and freak": The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers



Freak Photography



From Sideshow to the Streets: Performing the "Secret Self" Act Three



The Black Look and the "spectacle of whitefolks": Wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved



Maternal Impressions Epilogue: Live from New York


Notes


Bibliography


Index