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Genres of Privacy in Postwar America (Hardcover)
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Genres of Privacy in Postwar America (Hardcover)
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With this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role
genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private
person in the postwar period. Especially after the Supreme Court
established a constitutional right to privacy in 1965, legal
scholars, judges, and the public scrambled to understand the scope
of that right. Before and after the Court's ruling, authors of
genre fiction and film reformulated their aliens, androids, and
monsters to engage in debates about personal privacy as it
pertained to issues like abortion, police surveillance, and
euthanasia. Triangulating novels and films with original archival
discoveries and historical and legal research, Rampell provides new
readings of Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy B. Hughes, Philip K. Dick,
Octavia Butler, Chester Himes, Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, and
others. The book pairs the right of privacy for heterosexual sex
with queer and proto-feminist crime fiction; racialized police
surveillance at midcentury with Black crime fiction; Roe v. Wade
(1973) with 1960s and 1970s science fiction; the Child Abuse
Prevention and Treatment Act (1974) with horror; and the right to
die with westerns. While we are accustomed to defenses of fiction
for its capacity to represent fully rendered private life, Rampell
suggests that we might value a certain strand of genre fiction for
its capacity to theorize the meaning of the protean concept of
privacy.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Post*45 |
Release date: |
May 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Palmer Rampell
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-2921-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5036-2921-X |
Barcode: |
9781503629219 |
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