Screen LibraryFreak shows and the modern American imagination：constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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American literature readings in the 21st century |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 192 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1403974039 9781403974037 |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/F158 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index. '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. |