Camp comforts
Subtitle: reparative gay literature in times of AIDS
By: Chistian Lassen
Series: Lettre; Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Publisher: Transcript Verlag; Transaction Publishers [distributor]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bielefeld [Germany]; New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9783837618143
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) in literature; Gay men in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Camp comforts : reparative Gay literature in times of AIDS; title: 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; title: 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"; title: 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; title: Afterword. Towards a recuperation of reparative reading practices : a tribute to Eve Sedgwick.