WGS205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Susan Sontag, Queer Theory, Heteronormativity

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Queering popular culture involves a range of reading/writing practices that are political insofar as they seek to expose and problematize the means by which sexuality is textually constituted in relation to gender. And queer theory is cultural insofar as it concerns itself with the ways in which cultural texts inform our understandings and experiences of sexuality and subjectivity. Audience/reception theories: queer moments: moments of disruption which destabilize heteronormativity, and the meaning and identities it engenders, by bringing to light all that is disavowed by, and yet integral to, heteronormative logic. Camp: susan sontag notes on camp , indeed the essence of camp is its love of the unnatural, camp sees everything in quotation marks. Its not a lamp, but a lamp ; not a woman, but a woman . To perceive camp in objects and persons is to understand being-as-playing-a-role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.

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