Camp Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject A Reader

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Camp: Queer Aesthetics & the Performing Subject addresses the multilayered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference & theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient & challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role & significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural studies, lesbian & gay studies, & queer theory, this critical anthology at one & the same time "queers" camp as an issue & offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory, & practice of camp. The anthology is divided into five thematic/historical sections: Tasting It; Flaunting the Closet; Gender, & Other Spectacles; Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy; & The Queer Issue. These essay clusters help the reader situate the critical debates around the subject. A comprehensive bibliography of items from the earliest use of the word "camp" to the present completes this unique & exciting volume.