By Michael Trask
Camp Sites considers key topics of postwar tradition, from the clash among functionality and authenticity to the increase of the meritocracy, in the course of the lens of camp, the underground sensibility of pre-Stonewall homosexual existence. In so doing, it argues that our easy assumptions concerning the social form of the postwar milieu are deeply educated by means of convinced presuppositions approximately gay adventure and id, and that those presuppositions stay stubbornly entrenched regardless of our post-Stonewall consciousness-raising.
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