Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s / / Jane Nicholas.
In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pookie’s Story
- 1. Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things
- 2. The Carnival State: Protests, Moral Regulation, and Profits
- 3. The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour
- 4. The Twentieth-Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race
- 5. Not Just Child’s Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index