Title Camp sites : sex, politics, and academic style in postwar America / Michael Trask.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource.
	text file
Series	Post 45
	Post 45.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The schooling of America -- Campus novels and experimental persons -- Liberal perversion and countercultural commitment -- From impression management to expressive authenticity -- Deviant ethnographies -- Feminism, meritocracy, and the postindustrial economy.
Summary	Reading 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-mind.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Homosexuality and literature.
	United States.
	History.
	Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Politics and literature.
	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Literature and society.
	Camp (Style) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Camp (Style)
	Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Politics and culture.
	Universities and colleges -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Universities and colleges -- Political aspects.
	Universities and colleges.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
	Manners and customs.
Chronological Term	1945-1970
	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Subject	Camp (Gay culture)
Other Form:	Print version: 9780804784405 080478440X (DLC) 2012050735
ISBN	0804786631 (electronic book)
	9780804786638 (electronic book)
	9780804784405 (alkaline paper)
	080478440X (alkaline paper)
	9780804784412 (alkaline paper)
	0804784418 (alkaline paper)

Title Camp sites : sex, politics, and academic style in postwar America / Michael Trask.

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