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Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s.

In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Nicholas, Jane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Freak shows > Canada > History > 20th century.
Sideshows > Canada > History > 20th century.
Carnivals > Canada > History > 20th century.
Entertainers > Canada > History > 20th century.
Freak shows > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Sideshows > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Carnivals > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Entertainers > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Carnivals.
Entertainers.
Freak shows.
Sideshows.
Canada.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Page i; Frontispiece image; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pookie's Story; Chapter One: Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things; Chapter Two: The Carnival State: Protests, Moral Regulation, and Profits; Chapter Three: The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour; Chapter Four: The Twentieth-Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race; Chapter Five: Not Just Child's Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers.
  • Chapter Six: The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne QuintupletsEpilogue: "I guess it really is all over" − The End Which Is Not One; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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