Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture

Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers

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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers


Paru le : 2024-02-22



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This updated, new edition of 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.
Pages
220 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2024-02-22
Marque
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
EAN papier
9781636675909
EAN PDF
9781636676678

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44
Nombre pages imprimables
44
Taille du fichier
1321 Ko
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35,24 €
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9781636676685

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44
Nombre pages imprimables
44
Taille du fichier
758 Ko
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35,24 €

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