Camp comforts : reparative Gay literature in times of AIDS /
Lassen, Christian.
Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag ; New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers,
c2011.
Includes bibliographic references.
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.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Gay men in literature.