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Sideshow U.S.A. : Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
Sideshow USA Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
Author: Rachel Adams
A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, the horrific, and the amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the ar...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226005393
ISBN-10: 0226005399
Publication Date: 12/1/2001
Pages: 296
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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