Camp Comforts
Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS
»Camp Comforts« investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at social change and an aesthetically uplifting one that aims at personal healing. Christian Lassen argues that camp may in fact serve both ends, social change and personal healing, and goes on to explore reparative reading practices in order to rehabilitate alleviation and relief as vital objectives in literary representations of gay grief. In this way, »Camp Comforts« reveals the workings that make camp so crucial a strategy for survival in times of AIDS.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Table of Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Camp Comforts
Seiten 11 - 44 -
Part One: Camp Care
With Your Health Held High
Seiten 47 - 86 -
Drag and Drugs and Rockin' Roles
Seiten 87 - 136 -
Part Two: Camp Elegies
In Sheep's Clothing
Seiten 139 - 188 -
Shepherds on Horseback
Seiten 189 - 218 -
Part Three: Camp Meta-Fictions
Follow the Yellow Brick Interstate Highway
Seiten 221 - 272 -
Afterword
Towards a Recuperation of Reparative Reading Practices
Seiten 275 - 280 -
Works Cited
Bibliography
Seiten 283 - 294
26 April 2011, 294 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-1814-3
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