{"product_id":"queer-as-camp-kenneth-b-kidd-9780823283606","title":"Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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 \u003ci\u003eQueer as Camp\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exploring questions of identity, desire, and social formation, \u003ci\u003eQueer as Camp\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These accessible, engaging essays examine, variously, camp as a queer place and\/or the experiences of queers \u003ci\u003eat \u003c\/i\u003ecamp, 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 \u003ci\u003eLumberjanes, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich revitalizes and revises the century-old Girl Scout story; Disney's \u003ci\u003ePaul Bunyan, \u003c\/i\u003ea short film that plays up male homosociality and cross-species bonding while inviting queer identification in the process; \u003ci\u003eSleepaway Camp\u003c\/i\u003e, a horror film that exposes and deconstructs anxieties about the gendered body; and Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eMoonrise Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, which evokes dreams of escape, transformation, and other ways of being in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Highly interdisciplinary in scope, \u003ci\u003eQueer as Camp\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on camp and Camp with candor, insight, and often humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth B. Kidd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823283607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823283606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Kenneth B. Kidd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980628754687,"sku":"9780823283606","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_150c11df-cb13-4a8c-ade5-e50abb0c5e03.jpg?v=1683251002","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-as-camp-kenneth-b-kidd-9780823283606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}