Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers (Paperback)

Acknowledgments ? Introduction ? Degeneration, Anti- Semitism, and the Enfreakment of Modernism ? Nathanael West’s Aspiring Freakish Flaneurs ? “Well of Course, I Used to Be Absolutely Gorgeous, Dear”: The Female Interviewer as Subject/ Object in Djuna Barnes’s Journalism ? Heredity, Transvestism, and the Limits of Self- Fashioning in Nightwood ? Horror, Melodrama, and Mutable Masculine Identity in Tod Browning’s Films ? ‘‘This Thing I Long For I Know Not What”: Carson McCullers and the Melodrama of the Domesticated Freak ? Conclusion: Deviance, Defiance, and the Problem of “Weirdness” ? Afterword: The Freakish Flaneur Reconsidered ? Bibliography ? Index.