Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions by Annuß, Evelyn

Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837674750)

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Format: Paperback
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Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions by Annuß, Evelyn

Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions

$35.00
Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions by Annuß, Evelyn

Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Evelyn Annuß
ISBN-10: 3837674754
ISBN-13: 9783837674750
Publisher: Mdwpress
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
By Evelyn Annuß
By Evelyn Annuß
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Evelyn Annuß is professor of gender studies and director of the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) at mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Her work engages the intersections of aesthetics, theories of performativity, and political critique. As a scholar of theater and literature, she focuses on political spectacle, and in particular on its historicity and mediality in contexts of National Socialism, colonial racisms, and (re)fascization. ---

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