Queer As Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0823283615 ISBN 13 : 9780823283613

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary Herald

To camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circumstances. To camp can also mean to queer. And for many children and young adults, summer camp is a formative experience mixed with homosocial structure and homoerotic longing. In Queer as Camp, editors Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason curate a collection of essays and critical memoirs exploring the intersections of "queer" and "camp," focusing especially on camp as an alternative and potentially nonnormative place and/or time.

Exploring questions of identity, desire, and social formation, Queer as Camp delves into the diverse and queer-enabling dimensions of particular camp/sites, from traditional iterations of camp to camp-like ventures, literary and filmic texts about camp across a range of genres (fantasy, horror, realistic fiction, graphic novels), as well as the notorious appropriation of Indigenous life and the consequences of "playing Indian."

These accessible, engaging essays examine, variously, camp as a queer place and/or the experiences of queers at camp, including Vermont's Indian Brook, a single-sex girls' camp that has struggled with the inclusion of nonbinary and transgender campers and staff; the role of Jewish summer camp as a complicated site of sexuality, social bonding, and citizen-making as well as a potentially if not routinely queer-affirming place. They also attend to cinematic and literary representations of camp, such as the Eisner award-winning comic series Lumberjanes, which revitalizes and revises the century-old Girl Scout story; Disney's Paul Bunyan, a short film that plays up male homosociality and cross-species bonding while inviting queer identification in the process; Sleepaway Camp, a horror film that exposes and deconstructs anxieties about the gendered body; and Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed Moonrise Kingdom, which evokes dreams of escape, transformation, and other ways of being in the world.

Highly interdisciplinary in scope, Queer as Camp reflects on camp and Camp with candor, insight, and often humor.

Contributors: Kyle Eveleth, D. Gilson, Charlie Hailey, Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno, Kathryn R. Kent, Mark Lipton, Kerry Mallan, Chris McGee, Roderick McGillis, Tammy Mielke, Alexis Mitchell, Flavia Musinsky, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Annebella Pollen, Andrew J. Trevarrow, Paul Venzo, Joshua Whitehead

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kenneth B. Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale and Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature. He is also co-editor (with Derritt Mason) of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality (Fordham).

Derritt Mason is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

Kyle Eveleth is a Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky, where he specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, children's/young adult literature, and visual narrative. He has published on comics and narrative in Critical Insights: The American Comic Book, Critical Insights: Neil Gaiman, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, and The South Central Review. With Joseph Michael Sommers he is co- editor of The Artistry of Neil Gaiman: Finding Light in the Shadows.

Kathryn R. Kent is Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. Her chapter is part of a book-length project on sexuality and summer camp. Her recent publications include "Eve's Muse" in Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Poet, ed. Jason Edwards, which is an excerpt from her book- in- progress, an experimental biography of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

D. Gilson is the author of Jesus Freak (2018), I Will Say This Exactly One Time: Essays (2015), Crush with Will Stockton (2014), and Brit Lit (2013). He is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, and his work has appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Culture, and as a notable essay in Best American Essays.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823283615
• ISBN 13: 9780823283613
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Kidd Kenneth B., Mason Derritt
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible