Freaks in late modernist American culture : Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers /
Bombaci, Nancy,1963-
New York : Peter Lang,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.
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".
West, Nathanael, 1903-1940
Barnes, Djuna
Browning, Tod, 1882-1962
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967
American fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.