Freaks in late modernist American culture
Subtitle: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
By: Nancy Bombaci.
Series: Modern American literature,; v. 47; Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 47.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: West, Nathanael, 1903-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation.; Browning, Tod, 1882-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Difference (Psychology) in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Description: 175 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jews, degeneration and the enfreakment of modernism; title: Gentile spectators and the ideal of semitic vision; title: "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear"; title: Heredity, transvestism, and the limits of self-fashioning in Nightwood; title: Tod Browning, Louis B. Mayer and the threat of mutable masculine identity; title: "This thing I long for I know not what"; title: Conclusion : deviance, defiance, and the problem of weirdness.