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

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

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eng

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

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non fiction

Main title

Freaks in late modernist American culture

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bibliographydictionaries

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Nancy Bombaci

Series statement

Modern American literature,, v. 47, 1078-0521

Sub title

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

Table Of 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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Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning & Carson McCullers

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