Background
Bombaci, Nancy Margaret was born on March 25, 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Lucian and Anna Ferro Bombaci.
(Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the em...)
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms «late modernist freakish aesthetics» - a creative fusion of «high» and «low» themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about «freaks» by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies. These works are marked by an acceptance of the disteleology, anarchy, and degeneration that racist discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries associated with racial and ethnic outsiders, particularly Jews. In a period of American culture beset with increasing pressures for social and political conformity and with the threat of fascism from Europe, these late modernist narratives about «freaks» defy oppressive norms and values as they search for an anarchic and transformational creativity.
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Bombaci, Nancy Margaret was born on March 25, 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Lucian and Anna Ferro Bombaci.
Bachelor, Trinity College, Hartford, 1985. Master of Arts, Trinity College, Hartford, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 2000.
Visiting instructor Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 1998—1999, visiting assistant professor, 2000—2001, St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1999—2000. Adjunct lecturer Capital Community and Technology College, Hartford, 2001—2003. Assistant professor writing and literature Mitchell College, New London, since 2003.
(Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the em...)
Member of Modern Language Association.