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Fahy, Thomas Richard.

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Disabling visions: Freak shows in modern American literature and visual culture.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disabling visions: Freak shows in modern American literature and visual culture./
Author:	Fahy, Thomas Richard.
Description:	146 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Linda Wagner-Martin.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3007795
ISBN:	0493172564

Disabling visions: Freak shows in modern American literature and visual culture.
Fahy, Thomas Richard.

Disabling visions: Freak shows in modern American literature and visual culture. - 146 p.

Adviser: Linda Wagner-Martin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

This study examines some of the social functions of early twentieth-century freak shows and their impact on the artistic imagination. Between 1900 and 1950, a pattern of presenting difference as freakish emerges in modern literature and art that reflects cultural anxieties about race, disability, and sexual desire in America. Throughout this period, dramatic social changes brought about the decline of the freak show, moving it from a popular to despised form of entertainment, and this shift inspired many artists to use the freakish body as an image for fears about immigration, World War I, and the Great Depression. As these modern works suggest, freakishness extends far beyond the intentional presentation of bodies for money; it can also be a side-effect of herding certain people together, labeling them to make difference less threatening. Through an examination of various media, each chapter offers a case study of distinct cultural moments, and discusses the ways that freakishness reflects a society that often responded to change with fear, hatred, and disgust.

ISBN: 0493172564Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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