LEADER 04281nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910825753803321 005 20230126204322.0 010 $a0-8047-8663-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786638 035 $a(CKB)2560000000101869 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000917787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11552629 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10911346 035 $a(PQKB)11725672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1191291 035 $a(DE-B1597)563889 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786638 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1191291 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10704777 035 $a(OCoLC)846551600 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769924 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000101869 100 $a20121221d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCamp sites$b[electronic resource] $esex, politics, and academic style in postwar America /$fMichael Trask 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$dc2013 215 $axi, 259 p 225 1 $aPost 45 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-8440-X 311 $a0-8047-8441-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Schooling of America -- $t2 Campus Novels and Experimental Persons -- $t3 Liberal Perversion and Countercultural Commitment -- $t4 From Impression Management to Expressive Authenticity -- $t5 Deviant Ethnographies -- $t6 Feminism, Meritocracy, and the Postindustrial Economy -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aReading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site for "doing politics," and both exiled homosexuality from the political ideals each group favored. Liberals, who advanced a politics of style over substance, saw gay people as unable to separate the two, as incapable of maintaining the opportunistic suspension of disbelief on which a tough-minded liberalism depended. Radicals, committed to a politics of authenticity, saw gay people as hopelessly beholden to the role-playing and duplicity that the radicals condemned in their liberal forebears. Camp Sites considers key themes of postwar culture, from the conflict between performance and authenticity to the rise of the meritocracy, through the lens of camp, the underground sensibility of pre-Stonewall gay life. In so doing, it argues that our basic assumptions about the social style of the postwar milieu are deeply informed by certain presuppositions about homosexual experience and identity, and that these presuppositions remain stubbornly entrenched despite our post-Stonewall consciousness-raising. 410 0$aPost 45. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCamp (Style)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHomosexuality and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aUniversities and colleges$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1945-1970 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCamp (Style)$xHistory 615 0$aHomosexuality and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and culture$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a810.9/3587392 700 $aTrask$b Michael$f1967-$01684212 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825753803321 996 $aCamp sites$94078030 997 $aUNINA