![]() ![]() ![]() In Myer's view queer camp is also anti-essentialist (3) and differentiated from "rhetorical and performative strategies such as satire" (7). As he sees it, the nature of queer itself is "poststructural," having to do with practices rather than with an essential identity, in keeping with Michel Foucault's view of sexuality as something produced discursively rather than being a natural condition (2-3). ![]() According to Moe Meyer camp employs the "strategies and tactics of queer parody," and functions to foreground "queer social visibility" (5). This applies not only to traditional satire but also perhaps even to such contemporary modes as queer camp. This essay explores these themes focussing specifically on Gore Vidal's critique in Live from Golgotha of Christianity's claims to absolute truth and its attitudes toward sexuality.Īll attempts to critique may in fact reinstate or even strengthen their target, especially in the case of attacks on entrenched values or assumptions. Queer theorizing about the constructed nature of sexuality and poststructuralist theorizing about the discursive nature of history emphasize the manner in which satire reinscribes as it destabilizes. ![]()
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