Winner of the 20232024 CLAGS Fellowship AwardIlluminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violenceExtravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word camp the camp as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning Chris A. Eng explores how camp and encampment have contoured the figure of the Asian American.The book follows campy performances that imaginatively restage the camps that have been central to dominant narratives of Asian American history Chinese railroad labor Japanese American incarceration Vietnam War refugee resettlement and counterinsurgency camps across US imperial entanglements in the Philippines.