{"product_id":"canadian-carnival-freaks-and-the-extraordinary-body-19001970s-9781487502652","title":"Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 19001970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409139540311,"sku":"9781487502652","price":45.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487502652.jpg?v=1730505586","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canadian-carnival-freaks-and-the-extraordinary-body-19001970s-9781487502652","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}