Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture : Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Modern American Literature
ISBN-10
0820478326
ISBN-13
9780820478326
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 8th, 2005
Print length
175 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 28.50 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Cultural studies
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Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms «late modernist freakish aesthetics» – a creative fusion of «high» and «low» themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about «freaks» by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies. These works are marked by an acceptance of the disteleology, anarchy, and degeneration that racist discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries associated with racial and ethnic outsiders, particularly Jews. In a period of American culture beset with increasing pressures for social and political conformity and with the threat of fascism from Europe, these late modernist narratives about «freaks» defy oppressive norms and values as they search for an anarchic and transformational creativity.
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