Precious perversions
Subtitle: humor, homosexuality, and the Southern literary canon
By: Tison Pugh
Series: Southern literary studies; Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780807162699
Subjects: Humor in literature; In literature; American literature; Homosexuality in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Precious perversions; title: Camp sadomasochism in Tennessee Williams's plays; title: Laughing with Truman Capote: insult, camp, and gothic excess; title: Florence King's queer conservatism and the gender politics of Southern humor; title: Rita Mae Brown's queer feminism and the gender politics of Southern humor; title: Dorothy Allison's bravado and the comic limits of trauma; title: David Sedaris's humor of the postsouthern South: place, race, and queer desire; title: Conclusion: Precious perversions and the Southern literary canon.