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Josephine Baker only made a handful of films, but “Princesse Tam-Tam” is one of her most daring and outrageous comedies, a send-up of race- and class-conventions. It’s a parody of Pygmalion and Galatea: Josephine stars as a Tunisian peasant girl whisked off to Paris by a frustrated writer, and introduced to high society as “Princess Tam-Tam.” In its most famous scene, conspirators plan to “out” the “princess” – instead, her exotic dance brings the upper-crust crowd to its feet.

Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among other things. Here the close cultivation of cliché yields a bumper crop of absurdity and the utterly ludicrous turns up at every new twist of the tale. – NYRB

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