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Book SynopsisIn Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 19001970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.
Trade Review"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian." -- Kenneth Little, York University *
University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *
Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Pookie’s Story Chapter 1: Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things Chapter 2: The Carnival State: Protest, Moral Regulation, and Profits Chapter 3: The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour Chapter 4: The Twentieth Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race Chapter 5: Not Just Child’s Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers Chapter 6: The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets Epilogue: ‘I guess it really is all over’: The End Which is Not One Bibliography
