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Facing Drag
Gender Bending and Racialized Masking in Performing Arts and Popular Culture- Editors:
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- Publisher:
- 2025
Summary
»Facing Drag« brings together international experts from cultural studies – including history, media, theatre, dance, and performance studies – to explore how gender, race, and ethnicity are impersonated across time and cultures. Drawing on diverse case studies, the volume examines performative acts of crossing, appropriation, and re-signification, foregrounding their political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions. Expanding the concept of drag beyond gender bending, it investigates the interrelations of drag, processes of racialization and colonial histories. The essays offer critical insights into both the subversive potential of drag and its entanglement with violent forms of Othering and exclusion.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2025
- Copyright Year
- 2025
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-8118-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-7170-8
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 241
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- Caribbean Critical Thought and “Drag” Performances of IndigenizationPages 25 - 34Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Transtemporal Making-Out—On “Temporal Drag” in Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s So Pretty (2019)Pages 37 - 54Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- “Whose Portrait?” Fabulations and Triangulations in Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason (1967)Pages 55 - 70Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Reading the Blackened Faces of the Ku-Klux Klan in the Reconstruction-Era United StatesPages 87 - 102Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Gender Bending in the Southern Babylon: Black “Female Impersonators” in 1940s to 1960s New OrleansPages 103 - 134Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- On Arab Masquerades and Necropolitics: Invisibilization and Hypervisibilization in Israeli Popular CulturePages 151 - 166Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Borrowed Plumes, Jesuit Drag, and Costumes as Uncontrollable ResidualsPages 169 - 188Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Japonist Drag: Performing Entangled Exoticisms in Dance and Theater around 1900Pages 189 - 218Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
