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Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions

Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions

Annuß, Evelyn

Paperback

Series: Mdwpress

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3837674754
ISBN13: 9783837674750
Publisher: Mdwpress
Published: Jun 27 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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