Peculiar Places

A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity

Peculiar Places
Ryan Lee Cartwright
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3 May 2021 US
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9780226696881
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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.
Ryan Lee Cartwright is assistant professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis.
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ISBN-13: 9780226696881
Published: 3 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272

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