Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925

Empire and the Indian Freak

Tromp notes that there are differences and similarities in the specific ways that British and American concepts of class and empire intersected with the presentation of sideshow performers and narratives. See the chapter “Empire and the Indian Freak” for a discussion of how literature about the performer Laloo—who figured prominently in both British and American sideshows—was inherently tied to cultural understandings of imperial relations.

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