Dirty Dragging
Performative Transpositions- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2026
Summary
In Dirty Dragging, Evelyn Annuß reformulates queer theorizations of drag, exploring the ambivalence of transgressive performances under apartheid, Nazism, and Jim Crow through a transoceanic lens. Taking up the ambivalence of “dirty” performance modes spanning drag and carnival to propaganda, she extends readings of gender bending by incorporating perspectives on blackface and “racialized drag.” She thereby explores violent, locally specific mobilizations of the transgressive along with the ways in which queer and creolized forms of performance intertwine to oppose identitarian boundaries. Given the current slide into right-wing authoritarianism, the book thus gestures toward the potential joy of collectively making societal conditions dance.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2026
- Copyright Year
- 2026
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-7475-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-7475-4
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 305
- Product Type
- Monograph
Table of contents
- FrontmatterPages 1 - 12 Download chapter (PDF)
- AcknowledgementsPages 13 - 16 Download chapter (PDF)
- IntroductionPages 17 - 29 Download chapter (PDF)
- I. ApartheidPages 30 - 74 Download chapter (PDF)
- II. NazismPages 76 - 140 Download chapter (PDF)
- III. Jim CrowPages 142 - 223 Download chapter (PDF)
- PostscriptPages 225 - 225 Download chapter (PDF)
- AppendixPages 227 - 301 Download chapter (PDF)
- About mdwPressPages 303 - 303 Download chapter (PDF)
