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The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the discourse of camp. The contributors to this volume examine both activist strategies of camp performance--such as those employed by ACTUP--and theoretical debates on the meaning of camp as a signifying practice. They ask whether camp is a frivolous, apolitical style or a powerful cultural critique and expression of queer identity.

The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century homosexual subculture of London to its present manifestations in queer theatre and literature. They also take a fascinating look at the complex relationship between queer discourse and decidedly "un-queer" pop culture appropriations on film.

An incisive and entertaining collection of essays by some of the foremost critics now working in queer theory--from a number of disciplinary perspectives--The Politics and Poetics of Camp makes a well-timed entry into this emerging debate.

Contributors include Gregory Bredbeck, Kate Davy, Thomas King, Margaret Thompson Drewal, Chuck Kleinhans, Cynthia Morrell, Martin Worman, and Jerome Schultz.

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Morris Meyer is Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Although focusing on subjects ranging from late-seventeenth-century gestural codes to dyke noir fiction of the late 1980s, the essays in this collection center on shared theoretical and political questions.
Contemporary Drama, Winter 1995-96

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  • PublisherRoutledge
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 041508248X
  • ISBN 13 9780415082488
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages240
  • EditorMoe Meyer
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