Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America

by Chris A. Eng

Winner of the 2023-2024 CLAGS Fellowship Award

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence

Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word "camp" the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479834661
• ISBN13: 9781479834662
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages