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Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture

By Nancy Bombaci

Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture Contemporary literature

Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
220
Release Date:
2024-02-24
Publication Date:
2024-02-26
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1636675905
ISBN13:
9781636675909
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
316 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
225 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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