| Description |
ix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Bergman -- I. General Camp. Camp and the Gay Sensibility / Jack Babuscio. Role Models / Esther Newton. Uses of Camp / Andrew Ross. The Loneliness of Camp / Scott Long. Strategic Camp: The Art of Gay Rhetoric / David Bergman -- II. Applied Camp. Walt Whitman Camping / Karl Keller. High Culture and High Camp: The Case of Marcel Proust / Gregory Woods. Degenerate Personality: Deviant Sexuality and Race in Ronald Firbank's Novels / William Lane Clark. "The Kinda Comedy that Imitates Me": Mae West's Identification with the Feminist Camp / Pamela Robertson. The Critic as Performance Artist: Susan Sontag's Writing and Gay Cultures / Marcie Frank. "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me": The Camp Masquerades of Dusty Springfield / Patricia Juliana Smith. "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To!": Gay Men, AIDS, and the Circulation of Camp in U.S. Theater / David Roman. "Kinky Escapades, Bedroom Techniques, Unbridled Passion, and Secret Sex Codes" / Matias Viegener |
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III. Style and Homosexuality. Fake It Like a Man / Kevin Kopelson. Homosexual Expression and Homophobic Censorship: The Situation of the Text / Marty Roth. Roland Barthes: Toward an "Ecriture Gaie" / Robert K. Martin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gays' writings -- History and criticism.
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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Lifestyles.
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| Author |
Bergman, David, 1950-
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| LC no. |
93008818 |
| ISBN |
0870238779 (alk. paper) |
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0870238787 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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