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NON-FICTION / Language & Reference / Linguistics

Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language


A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019

'Richly evocative and entertaining.' Guardian

'An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari bona!' Attitude
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ISBN:  9781789142945
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Descriere

Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colourful roots are varied ‐ from Cant to Lingua Franca and dancers' slang ‐ and in the mid‐1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne. ('Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!')

Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humour and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline and tells of its unlikely re‐emergence in the twenty‐first century.

With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is an essential document of recent history ‐ a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy and ingenious language.

'Paul Baker's exuberant, richly detailed history of Polari, a ''secret'' language used chiefly by gay men in the 1940s and 1950s, is a delightful read.' Tatler

 

Detalii

Editura: Reaktion Books
An apariție: 2020
Nr. pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 20 x 13 cm

Recenzii

'It is as much for its vocabulary as for its sociological vagaries that we read Baker's always illuminating book . . . Fabulosa!' --Daily Telegraph

'Intriguing and often amusing . . . Baker's interviews radiate warmth and good humour.' --Spectator

'Baker tells the story of Polari with pride, passion and humour, making clear that camp can be ''deliciously political''.' --London Magazine

 

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