Title Freaks in late modernist American culture : Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers / Nancy Bombaci.

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New York : Peter Lang, 2024.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	813.5209 B695F	Check Shelf

Edition	Second edition.
Description	pages cm.
Series	Modern American Literature ; vol. 75
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
	Difference (Psychology) in literature.
	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	West, Nathanael, 1903-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Browning, Tod, 1880-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Barnes, Djuna (OCoLC)fst00042895
	Browning, Tod, 1880-1962 (OCoLC)fst01760394
	McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 (OCoLC)fst00036258
	West, Nathanael, 1903-1940 (OCoLC)fst00032867
	American fiction (OCoLC)fst00807048
	Difference (Psychology) in literature (OCoLC)fst00893417
	Identity (Psychology) in literature (OCoLC)fst00966910
	Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
	United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Literary criticism (OCoLC)fst01986215
	Literary criticism.
Other Form:	Online version: Bombaci, Nancy, 1963- Freaks in late modernist American culture. Second edition New York : Peter Lang, 2024 9781636676678 (DLC) 2023041606
ISBN	9781636675909 (paperback)
	1636675905
	9781636676678 (e-book)
	9781636676685 (e-pub)

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