Bibliograph

Precious perversions, humor, homosexuality, and the Southern literary canon, Tison Pugh

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Precious perversions, humor, homosexuality, and the Southern literary canon, Tison Pugh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Precious perversions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Tison Pugh

Series statement

Southern literary studies

Sub title

humor, homosexuality, and the Southern literary canon

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Precious perversions -- Camp sadomasochism in Tennessee Williams's plays -- Laughing with Truman Capote: insult, camp, and gothic excess -- Florence King's queer conservatism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Rita Mae Brown's queer feminism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Dorothy Allison's bravado and the comic limits of trauma -- David Sedaris's humor of the postsouthern South: place, race, and queer desire -- Conclusion: Precious perversions and the Southern literary canon

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