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Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality Paperback - 1994

by David Bergman (Editor)


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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 favors 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 sixteen essays on camp included in this book explore further the relationship between style and homosexuality, showing how camp has made its way into every aspect of our cultural lives: theater, popular music, opera, film, and literature. Beginning with an overview of what camp is, where it came from, and how it operates, the chapter addresses 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 twenty-five years ago, before Stonewall and AIDS, when Susan Sontag published her memorable Notes on Camp.

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  • Title Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality
  • Author David Bergman (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
  • Date January 1994
  • ISBN 9780870238789 / 0870238787
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.16 x 0.83 in (23.50 x 15.65 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Homosexuality and literature, Lifestyles
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93008818
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

About the author

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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