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Dirty Dragging
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- Book Synopsis
- In Dirty Dragging, Evelyn Annu 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.
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9783837674750
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- mdwPress, (27 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
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