Freak shows and the modern American imagination: constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
2007; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 44; Issue: 09 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.44-4907
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)American Literature and Culture
ResumoIntroduction '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 Breakfast at Brian's Epilogue
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