Téléchargez le livre : Freak Inheritance

Freak Inheritance

Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

de

, ,

Éditeur :

Oxford University Press


Paru le : 2024-08-16



eBook Téléchargement , DRM LCP 🛈 DRM Adobe 🛈
Lecture en ligne (streaming)
23,09 €
Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Image Louise Reader présentation

Louise Reader

Lisez ce titre sur l'application Louise Reader.

badge apple Application Louise Reader
badge Android Application Louise Reader
Description
The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the wildly popular performances that told compelling stories about categories of people that scientific and social-scientific discourses increasingly described - and sometimes still describe - as biologically inferior. Although much work has emerged recently about the history of eugenics, this collection highlights the specific ways that modes of exaggerated commercial popular performances create a public conversation that mirrors pathological narratives of human difference that are now firmly established as the categories of normal and abnormal, healthy and diseased, beneficial and harmful. This connection between narratives of freakery and normalcy gesture towards a fuller understanding of how eugenic thinking has re-emerged strongly as a force in medical science and cultural thinking aimed at producing the supposed “best” and “most useful” kinds of people.
Pages
352 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2024-08-16
Marque
Oxford University Press
EAN papier
9780197691120
EAN PDF
9780197691151
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
0
Taille du fichier
29778 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
23,09 €
EAN EPUB
9780197691144
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
0
Taille du fichier
10394 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
23,09 €
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor Emerita at Emory University. Michael Mark Chemers is Professor and Chair, Department of Performance, Play and Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Analola Santana is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Dartmouth College.

Suggestions personnalisées