TY  - GEN
T1  - Genres of privacy in postwar America
T2  - Post 45.
A1  - Rampell, Palmer
LA  - English
PP  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1263249314
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 222
CN  - PS374.P647 R36 2022
SN  - 9781503631908
SN  - 1503631907
SN  - 9781503629219
SN  - 9781503631892
KW  - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 20th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Fiction genres : Themes, motives.
KW  - Privacy in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Roman : Typologie : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Vie privée dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - American fiction : Themes, motives
KW  - Privacy in literature
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Privacy.
KW  - crime fiction.
KW  - genre.
KW  - horror.
KW  - law and literature.
KW  - post-1945 American literature.
KW  - science fiction.
KW  - westerns.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -