Introduction: Precious perversions -- Camp sadomasochism in Tennessee Williams's plays -- Laughing with Truman Capote: insult, camp, and gothic excess -- Florence King's queer conservatism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Rita Mae Brown's queer feminism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Dorothy Allison's bravado and the comic limits of trauma -- David Sedaris's humor of the postsouthern South: place, race, and queer desire -- Conclusion: Precious perversions and the Southern literary canon.
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