Title: Facing Drag: Gender Bending and Racialized Masking in Performing Arts and Popular Culture
Publisher: mdwPress
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3837681181
ISBN 13: 9783837681185
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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.

About the Authors

Evelyn Annu�, Professorin f�r Gender Studies, leitet das International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) an der Universit�t f�r Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Sie arbeitet an der Schnittstelle von �sthetik, Performativit�tstheorien und der Kritik der Politik. Als Theater- und Literaturwissenschaftlerin besch�ftigt sie sich u.a. mit politischen Spektakeln, ihrer Historizit�t und Medialit�t im Kontext von NS, Kolonialrassismen und (Re-)Faschisierung.

Raz Weiner (Dr.) visiting lecturer at mdw – Universit�t f�r 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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