Camp Grounds (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
336
Utgivningsdatum
1993-12-01
Upplaga
New
Förlag
University of Massachusetts Press
Medarbetare
Bergman, David (ed.)
Illustrationer
11 illustrations
Dimensioner
235 x 156 x 21 mm
Vikt
499 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780870238789

Camp Grounds

Style and Homosexuality

av David Bergman
Häftad,  Engelska, 1993-12-01
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The concept of camp has never been easy to define. Derived from the French verb ""camper"" (to pose) it has been variously interpreted as a style that favours exaggeration, an ironic attitude toward the cultural mainstream and a form of aestheticism that celebrates artifice over beauty. At the same time, camp has been long associated with homosexual culture, or at least with a self-conscious eroticism that questions traditional gender constructions. The 16 essays on camp included in this book explore the relationship between style and homosexuality, showing how camp has made its way into every aspect of our cultural lives: theatre, popular music, opera, film, and literature. Beginning with an overview of what camp is, where it came from and how it operates, the chapters address topics ranging from the ""high camp"" of Whitman and Proust to the ""low camp"" of drag-queen culture and gay fanzines. Together they carry forward a conversation that began more than 25 years ago, before Stonewall and AIDS, when Susan Sontag published her memorable ""Notes on Camp"".
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Camp Grounds vividly illustrates the pervasiveness and usefulness of camp in literature and other arts, as well as in life, while raising intriguing questions about homosexual style. . . . [It] combines classic essays and current work to create an echoing chamber in which ideas about this fascinating aspect of gay life and culture reverberate. The book is an exciting and useful contribution to the burgeoning field of gay studies.--Claude Summers, University of Michigan, Dearborn

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David Bergman is professor of English at Towson State University and author of Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature, which was cited by Choice as a landmark contribution to the developing field of gay studies.

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