Freak Inheritance -

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Résumé :
In Freak Inheritance, both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations of eugenicist thought in historical and contemporary culture. It is the follow-up to the field-defining Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996)....

Biographie:

• FOREWORD by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen


• INTRODUCTION: Step Right Up! A New Introduction to the Old Freak Show by Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Michael Mark Chemers, and Analola Santana


• I. STAGING


• 1. Abject Bodies in Performance Art by Josefina Alcazar. Translated by Analola Santana


• 2. The Normativity of the Extraordinary: Musical Theatre on the Page and on the Stage by Stacy Wolf and Ryan Donovan


• 3. Performance, Pleasure, and Profit at the Victorian Freak Show by Nadya Durbach


• 4. Chick Webb's Extraordinary Body of Music by Meisha Rosenberg


• 5. The Enfreakment of the Premature Infant: incubator baby shows in the United States by Susan Kattwinkel


• II. HYBRIDITY


• 6. The Tragic Journey of a Mexican Savage to the Civilized World by Roger Bartra. Translated by Analola Santana


• 7. Rest in Peace, Charles Byrne?: The Last Testament and Enduring Legacy of the 18th Century 'Irish Giant' by David A. Gerber


• 8. Chin Up: Befriending the Bearded Ladies by Lilian Craton


• 9. Spectacles of Prognosis: El Ni??o Fidencio in the 21st Century by Susan Antebi


• III. MONSTROSITY


• 10. Monstrous Births and the Religious Imagination by Devan Stahl


• 11. Human or Alien: Tracing Enfreaked Subjects in the 20th and 21st Century Theatre of Disability by Danielle Bainbridge


• 12. The Mortification of Harvey Leach by Michael Mark Chemers


• IV. UNSETTLING


• 13. Freakish Fecundity: Birth and Baby Reality Television as Eugenicist Discourse by Katya Vrtis


• 14. Alexandrine: A German Princess with Down Syndrome who Survived the Holocaust by Robert Bogdan


• 15. Dead Weight: Exhibiting Fatness Postmortem by Joyce Huff


• 16. Disornamentation: An Optic for Reading Depictions of Disabled, Asian Women by Jenna Gerdsen


• 17. Sex Mad: Gender and Disability in the Art of Eudora Welty and Reginald Marsh Keri Watson


• V. LEARNING


• 18. The Pedagogical Utility of Early Freak Show Scholarship by Cynthia Wu


• 19. Teaching the Extraordinary Body: A Generation of Freaks and Monsters in the Classroom by Leonard Cassuto