Freak inheritance : eugenics and extraordinary bodies in performance /
"Freak Inheritance is a survey of cutting-edge theory and analysis of the freak show performance tradition, offering a deep and broad inquiry into the cultural work behind the performance of abnormality in the US and beyond. The dynamic of performance has the power to communicate and affectivel...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Freak Inheritance is a survey of cutting-edge theory and analysis of the freak show performance tradition, offering a deep and broad inquiry into the cultural work behind the performance of abnormality in the US and beyond. The dynamic of performance has the power to communicate and affectively charge a eugenic message through the frame of entertainment and spectacle. The materiality, presence, and dialectical immediacy of the gestalt of performance affords the freak show's work the ability to activate, often through exaggeration, in an embodied, real-time, and highly effective way for its audiences"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 325 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197691144 0197691145 9780197691168 0197691161 9780197691151 0197691153 |