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Literature & Theology

ISSN 0269-1205

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‘[God] Is A Flaming Hebrew Letter’: Esoteric Camp in Angels in America

Literature & Theology June 1, 2019 Allan Kilner-Johnson

This article turns attention to the mystical theology of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America to demonstrate how Kushner aligns the long theological history of spiritual revelation and textual exegesis with the performative associations of camp, the stylised heightening of otherness, citation, and irony central to contemporary gay culture. Kushner’s play underscores the role of the...