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Camp comforts : reparative Gay literature in times of AIDS /

"Camp Comforts" investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at social change and an aesthetically uplifting one that aims at personal healing. Christian Lasse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lassen, Christian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript, [2011]
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Camp comforts : reparative Gay literature in times of AIDS
  • Part 1. Camp care. With your health held high : the camp probing of the ideology of caring in Adam Mars-Jones' Monopolies of loss ; Drag and drugs and rockin' roles : medicine, poetry and camp performativity in Rafael Campo's What the body told
  • Part 2. Camp elegies. In sheep's clothing : genre camp and the invasion of the pastoral elegy in Alan Hollinhurst's The folding star ; Shepherds on horseback : genre camp and the invasion of the American western in Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain"
  • Part 3. Camp meta-fictions. Follow the yellow brick interstate highway : camp meta-fictions and the recovery of a proto-gay childhood in Geoff Ryman's Was
  • Afterword. Towards a recuperation of reparative reading practices : a tribute to Eve Sedgwick.