Sideshow U.S.A.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Overture: Recovering Otis
Act One
2. Freaks of Culture: Institutions, Publics, and the Subject of Ethnographic Knowledge
3. Sideshow Cinema
Act Two
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"
Act Three
7. The Black Look and the "spectacle of whitefolks": Wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved
8. Maternal Impressions
Epilogue: Live from New York
Notes
Bibliography
Index