Peculiar places : a queer crip history of white rural nonconformity / Ryan Lee Cartwright.
| Author/creator | Cartwright, Ryan Lee author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Queer crip history of white rural nonconformity |
| Contents | Introduction. QueerCrip historical analysis and the rural white anti-idyll -- Harlots from the hollow: eugenic detectives on the lookout for the rural white hovel family -- Curious scenes: the fringes of rural rehabilitation in 1930s documentary photography -- Madness in the dead heart: Ed Gein and the fabrication of the transgender heartland "psycho" killer myth -- "Maimed in body and spirit": the spectacle of white Appalachian poverty tours during the 1960s -- Banjos, chainsaws, and sodomy: making 1970s rural horror films and the apex of the anti-idyll -- Estranged but not strangers: nonconformity encounters identity in 1990s hate-crime documentaries. |
| Abstract | "Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors crystallized into a national optic of white social degeneracy. Cartwright points to a tension between the idyll (rooted in the national myth of the Jeffersonian yeoman farmer and his idealized family) and the anti-idyll (the aberrant sexuality, gender transgression, and anomalous bodies and minds that are associated with rural white populations). Cartwright examines the anti-idyll in different genres from the 1910s through the 1990s: popular science in the 1910s and early '20s, documentary photography in the '30s, news media in the '50s, poverty tours in the '60s, horror films in the '70s and early '80s, and documentary films in the 1990s."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Cartwright, Ryan Lee. Peculiar Places. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2021 9780226696911 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 022669707X |
| ISBN | 9780226697079 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |