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Facing Drag
Gender Bending and Racialized Masking in Performing Arts and Popular Culture
Series: mdwPress
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"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...
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A global, cross-media rethinking of drag – gender, race, and power from court spectacle to memes.
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"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.
Series: mdwPress
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ISBN: 9783837681185
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 February 2026
Country: Germany
Imprint: mdwPress
Contributors:
- Edited by Evelyn Annuß
- Edited by Raz Weiner
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 15.0mm
Height: 23.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Evelyn Annuß, Professorin für Gender Studies, leitet das International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Sie arbeitet an der Schnittstelle von Ästhetik, Performativitätstheorien und der Kritik der Politik. Als Theater- und Literaturwissenschaftlerin beschäftigt sie sich u.a. mit politischen Spektakeln, ihrer Historizität und Medialität im Kontext von NS, Kolonialrassismen und (Re-)Faschisierung. Raz Weiner (Dr.) visiting lecturer at mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. His work focuses on traditions, archives and contemporary forms of colonialism, racialisation and queerness, the production of bodies and knowledge, and the co-constitution of human societies and digital worlds.
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