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Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture

Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
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Description

This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author 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 dysteleology, 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.

Author Biography:

Nancy Bombaci, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature in New London, Connecticut, received her Ph.D. in English from Fordham University. She has published articles on modern and postmodern fiction. Her interests also include disability studies, performance studies, writing pedagogy, and creative writing.
Release date NZ
February 26th, 2024
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  • Series edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani
Pages
212
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New edition
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
ISBN-13
9781636675909
Product ID
38714311

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