Freakery: cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body
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List of Illustrations xi
Foreword xiii
LESLIE A. FIEDLER
Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
1. Introduction: From Wonder to Error—A Genealogy of Freak Discourse 1 r
in Modernity
ROSEMARIE GARLAND THOMSON
I. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF FREAKS
2. The Social Construction of Freaks 23
ROBERT BOGDAN
3. The "Careers" of People Exhibited in Freak Shows: The Problem of 38 *
Volition and Valorization
DAVID A. GERBER
4. Jntolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit 55
ELIZABETH GROSZ
II. PRACTICES OF ENFREAKMENT
5. Monsters in the Marketplace: The Exhibition of Human Oddities in 69
Early Modern England
PAUL SEMONIN
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^ CONTENTS £
6. Death Defying/Defining Spectacles: Charles Willson Peale as Early 82
American Freak Showman
EDWARD L. SCHWARZSCHILD
7. P. T. Barnum's Theatrical Selfhood and the Nineteenth Century Culture 97
of Exhibition
ERIC FRETZ
8. Social Order and Psychological Disorder: Laughing Gas 108
Demonstrations, 1800 1850
ELLEN HICKEY GRAYSON
9. Photography and Persuasion: Farm Security Administration 121
Photographs of Circus and Carnival Sideshows, 1935 1942
RONALD E. OSTMAN
III. EXHIBITING CORPOREAL FREAKS
10. Of Men, Missing Links, and Nondescripts: The Strange Career of P. T. 139
Barnum's "What is It?" Exhibition
JAMES W. COOK, JR.
11. Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 158
1850 1900 :
NIGEL ROTHFELS
12. The "Exceptions That Prove the Rule": Daisy and Violet Hilton, the 173
"New Woman," and the Bonds of Marriage
ALLISON PINGREE
13. Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics: Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple 185
LORI MERISH
IV. EXHIBITING CULTURAL FREAKS
14. Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent 207
BERNTH LINDFORS
15. Ogling Igorots: The Politics and Commerce of Exhibiting Cultural 219
Otherness, 1898 1913
CHRISTOPHER A. VAUGHAN
16. "What an object he would have made of me!": Tattooing and the Racial 234
Freak in Melville's Typee
LEONARD CASSUTO
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17. The Circassian Beauty and the Circassian Slave: Gender, Imperialism, 248
and American Popular Entertainment
LINDA FROST
V. TEXTUAL USES OF FREAKS
18. "One of Us": Tod Browning's Freaks 265
JOAN HAWKINS
19. An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in 277
Katherine Dunn's Geek Love
RACHEL ADAMS
20. Freaking Feminism: The Life and Loves of a She Devil and Nights at the 291 f
Circus as Narrative Freak Shows
SHIRLEY PETERSON
21. Teaching Freaks 302
BRIAN ROSENBERG
VI. RELOCATIONS OF THE FREAK SHOW
22. The Dime Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show 315
ANDREA STULMAN DENNETT
23. Freaks in Space: "Extraterrestrialism" and "Deep Space 327
Multiculturalism"
JEFFREY A. WEINSTOCK
24. Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of 338
Conjoined Twins
DAVID L. CLARK AND CATHERINE MYSER
25. Bodybuilding: A Postmodern Freak Show 356
CECILE LINDSAY
26. The Celebrity Freak: Michael Jackson's "Grotesque Glory" 368
DAVID D. YUAN
Contributors 385
Index 389
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1.1. Charles Tripp 6
1.2. Lipstretching 7
1.3. Freak Show 8
1.4. Cover of the Life Narrative of "the Tat¬
tooed Greek Prince" 9
2.1. Carnival Talker 26
2.2. Bearded Lady 31
2.3. Barnum and Bailey Circus Sideshow
Group 33
5.1. Drawing of Monstrous Birth 73
5.2. Female Monster 74
6.1. Peak's Artist in His Museum 89
6.2. Peak's Rachel Weeping 92
8.1. Gillray's Scientific Researches! Ill
8.2. Seymour's Living Made Easy 114
8.3. Seymour's Grand Exhibition of. .
Laughing Gas! 114
9.1. The Central Iowa 4 H Fair 124
9.2. Sideshow 125
9.3. Freak Show 127
9.4. Talker at a Sideshow 127
9.5. Sideshow at the Circus 129
9.6. Fat Man 129
9.7. Fat Lady Show Banner 131
9.8. Man Chewing a Piece of Snake 131
9.9. Selling Tickets at Sideshow 133
9.10. Freak Museum Entrance 135
10.1. Artist's Representation of Freak Produc¬
tion 141
10.2. Brady's Portraits of William Henry
Johnson 143
10.3. The Missing Link 146
10.4. Promotional Image of Zip 146
11.1. Bartola and Maximo 160
11.2. The Aztec Children 161
11.3. Krao 163
11.4. Lionel 170
12.1. Daisy and Violet Hilton 174
12.2. San Antonio's Siamese Twins 179
13.1. Brady's "Fairy Wedding Group" 193
13.2. Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple 200
14.1. Poster of Sartjee 209
14.2. The Bosjesmans 211
15.1. Igorot Village 222
15.2. Igorot Feast Dance 223
15.3. Igorot Dancers 231
16.1. Advertisement for James F. O'Con
nell 239
17.1. Miss Fatima 258
17.2. Zumigo the Egyptian 259
18.1. Poster for Browning's Freaks 266
22.1. Fat Person 324
25.1. Strong Man 359
25.2. Bodybuilding Competitor 363
26.1. Michael Jackson 374
26.2. Leopard Child 378 |
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