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

Author:: Bombaci, Nancy, 1963-
Published:: New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: 175 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series:

Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; v. 47

Contents:

Degeneration, anti-semitism, and the enfreakment of modernism -- Nathanael West's aspiring freakish flâneurs -- "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear": the female interviewer as subject/object in Djuna Barnes' journalism -- Heredity, transvestism, and the limits of self-fashioning in Nightwood -- Horror, melodrama, and mutable masculine identity in Tod Browning's films -- Louis B. Mayer and the threat of mutable masculine identity -- "This thing I long for I know not what" : Carson McCullers and the melodrama of the domesticated freak -- Conclusion : deviance, defiance, and the problem of "weirdness".

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ISBN:

0820478326 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-172) and index.

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