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Peculiar Places - A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (Paperback)
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Peculiar Places - A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (Paperback)
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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.
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