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“Camp” as a book category signals an aesthetic of deliberate exaggeration, artifice, and playful excess. These works revel in theatricality, lush style, and larger-than-life characters; they mix high and low culture, embrace melodrama, and often deploy parody, pastiche, and barbed wit. The tone is self-aware and affectionate—finding pleasure in what might be deemed “kitsch” or “so-bad-it’s-good”—while frequently smuggling in sharp social critique. Camp narratives often carry a queer sensibility, celebrate glamour and performance, and prioritize sensorial flair and attitude over strict realism, inviting readers to delight in spectacle even as they question cultural norms.

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