Binding: Paperback
Description: The queer recluse the shambling farmer the clannish hill folk white rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination alternately revered as moral healthy and hardworking and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. In Peculiar Places Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth - century United States. Sensationalized accounts of white rural communities aberrant sexualities racial intermingling gender transgressions and anomalous bodies and minds which proliferated from the turn of the century created a national view of the perversity of white rural poverty for the American public. Cartwright contends that these accounts extracted and estranged from their own ambivalent forum of community gossip must be read in kind: through a racialized materialist queercrip optic of the deeply familiar and mundane. Taking in popular science documentary photography news media documentaries and horror films Peculiar Places orients itself at the intersections of disability studies queer studies and gender studies to illuminate a racialized landscape both profoundly ordinary and familiar.
Title: Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History Of White Rural Nonconformity
Author(s): Cartwright Ryan Lee
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226696881
Pages: 272 Pages, 33 Halftones
Publication Date: 9/3/2021
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups