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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
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