		1999
		3/year
		English, French

		Humanities

		0007-7720


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Submission Guidelines and/or Editorial Policies- Editorial Focus The journal publishes articles, review articles, and short reviews whose purpose is the multi- and interdisciplinary analysis and understanding of the culture, both past and present, of the United States—and of the relations between the cultures of the United States and Canada. We invite contributions from authors in all relevant scholarly disciplines related to the study of the United States, in English or in French. All submissions will be given an external, blind review. Manuscripts are considered as papers, 20–25 pages in length. Book reviews should be approximately 3–5 pages in length. Send all manuscripts and book reviews to Canadian Review of American Studies, Department of English, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6. Manuscripts will not normally be returned unless a self-addressed stamped envelope, with Canadian postage, is provided.

Canadian Review of American Studies

Statement of Purpose - It publishes essays, review essays and shorter reviews whose purpose is the multi- and inter-disciplinary analysis and understanding of the culture, both past and present, of the United States - and of the relations between the cultures of the U.S. and Canada. Canadian Review of American Studies is published three times a year by the Canadian Association for American Studies with the support of the University of Calgary and the University of Windsor.

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2005, Vol. 35, No. 1

Between a Frock and a Hard Place: Camp Aesthetics and Children’s Culture

By Kerry Mallan and Roderick McGillis
In exploring camp and children’s culture, we raise the following contrasting viewpoints. The conventionally accepted view, derived from Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp, is that ‘‘camp’’ is a style or a sensibility (275–7). More recent queer accounts of camp see it as an oppositional critique (of gender and sexuality) embodied in a ‘‘queer’’ performative identity (Butler 233–6). Camp is also a social practice for many, and a style and an identity performed in many types of entertainment (for example: film, cabaret, and pantomime). In this respect, it is indicative of the competing and conflicting cultural elements within Western societies. Such conflict heightens the visibility of ‘‘difference’’ particularly with respect to queer communities, and the blurring of gender/sexual identity as a singular, homogenous entity. In other words, camp sensibility and camp performance embrace difference while they also gather performers into communities we might label ‘‘queer.’’ Queer communities differ from non-queer communities and defer any notion of stability. Both queer and camp are outside notions of stability; they are border activities.