TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Rachel TI - Sideshow U.S.A: freaks and the American cultural imagination SN - 0226005399 AV - GV1835. A33 2001 U1 - 791.350973 PY - 2001/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Sideshows KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Circus performers KW - Abnormalities, Human KW - Popular culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index; 1; Overture: Recovering Otis --; 2; Freaks of Culture: Institutions, Publics, and the Subjects of Ethnographic Knowledge --; 3; Sideshow Cinema --; 4; "A mixture of delicious and freak": The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers --; 5; Freak Photography --; 6; From Sideshow to the Streets: Performing the "Secret Self" --; 7; The Black Look and the "spectacle of whitefolks": Wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved --; 8; Maternal Impressions --; Epilogue: Live from New York ER -