Genres of privacy in postwar America

Genres of privacy in postwar America

by Rampell, Palmer

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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 general 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 per…

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  • Full title :Genres of privacy in postwar America / Palmer Rampell.

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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 general 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, Genres of Privacy suggests that we might value a certain strand of genre fiction for its capacity to theorize the meaning of the protean concept of privacy"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2022

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The Physical Object

  • Description:222 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781503629219, 150362921X, 9781503631892, 1503631893
  • oclc:on1261878946
  • LC Classification:PS374.P647
  • Dewey Decimal:813.009/353

Table of Contents

Introduction: Genres of privacy -- The queer art of murder -- Midcentury Black cops -- The science fiction of Roe v. Wade -- Exorcising child abuse in the 1970s -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- Conclusion.

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Subjects

American fiction American fiction -- History and critici… American fiction -- Themes, motives American fiction -- Themes, motives. --… Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction genres -- Themes, motives Privacy in literature Roman -- Typologie Roman américain -- Histoire et critique… Roman américain -- Thèmes, motifs. -- 2… Vie privée dans la littérature

Writers

Rampell, Palmer

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