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The Queening of America (Hardcover)
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The Queening of America (Hardcover)
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The host of Hollywood Squares asks Paul Lynde, "Why do bikers wear
leather?" "Because chiffon wrinkles so easily," Lynde quips.
Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture --
its humor, its icons, its desires -- has been alive and sometimes
even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van
Leer puts forward here a series of reading that aim to identify
what he calls the "queening" of America, a process by which
"rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are
presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral." In his
recinsiderations of the all-American "Damn Yankees" or the gay
adult classics of Patrick Dennis ("Auntie Mame, Little Me"), Van
Leer overturns simplistic notions of camp as merely a humorous
exaggeration of straight culture.
"The Queening" "of America" examines how the invisibility of gay
male writing, especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and
1960s, facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture.
Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality
visible (the packaging of Joe Orton, the theories of Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick, the rise of gay studies), before concluding more
optimistically on the possible alliances between gay culture and
other minority discourses.
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