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Facing Drag

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A global, cross-media rethinking of drag – gender, race, and power from court spectacle to memes.
  • 24 March 2026
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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.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: mdwPress
Series: mdwPress
Publication Date: 24 March 2026
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837681185
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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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.

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. ---