Freak shows and the modern American imagination : constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote /
Fahy, Thomas Richard.
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.
'Helpless Meanness": Constructing the Black Body as Freakish Spectacle -- War-Injured Bodies: Fallen Soldiers in American Propaganda and the Works of John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner -- Worn, Damaged Bodies in the Great Depression: FSA Photography and the Fiction of John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, and Nathanael West  -- "Some Unheard-of Thing": Freaks, Families, and Coming of Age in Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.
American fiction
Human body in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in art.
Freak shows