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| ethnic drag: Ethnic Drag Katrin Sieg, 2023-06-20 The Holocaust is considered a singularly atrocious event in human history, and many people have studied its causes. Yet few questions have been asked about the ways in which West Germans have forgotten, unlearned, or reconstructed the racial beliefs at the core of the Nazi state in order to build a democratic society. This study looks at ethnic drag (Ethnomaskerade) as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested Germanness in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions. Using engaging case studies, Ethnic Drag traces the classical and travestied traditions of Jewish impersonation from the eighteenth century onward to construct a pre-history of postwar ethnic drag. It examines how, shortly after World War II, mass culture and popular practices facilitated the repression and refashioning of Nazi racial precepts. During a time when American occupation authorities insisted on remembrance and redress for the Holocaust, the Wild West emerged as a displaced theater of the racial imagination, where the roles of victim, avenger, and perpetrator of genocide were reassigned. Ethnic Drag is an accessible and sophisticated, critical and entertaining book that examines the phenomenon of cultural masquerade in order to examine racial feeling, thought, and behavior in postwar German culture. Contributing to considerations of drag in postcolonial, feminist, and queer scholarships, this book will be of interest to people in German studies, theater performance, ethnic studies, and women's/queer studies. Katrin Sieg is Associate Professor, Department of German and Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University. |
| ethnic drag: Ethnic Drag Katrin Sieg, 2002 An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of race after the Holocaust |
| ethnic drag: Queer Pop Bettina Papenburg, Kathrin Dreckmann, 2024-07-01 Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and performers who question the contours of traditional sexual and gender identities, including but not limited to members of LGBTQIA* communities. When encountered on the stage or screen, for instance, in the guise of drag performances, forms of sexual ambiguity often spark fascination. Yet in everyday life in various socio-cultural contexts, sexual and bodily difference in all its forms is still met with hostility, rendering vulnerable those human beings that deviate from the white, male, straight, able-bodied norm. Queer artists today respond to social stigma in multiple creative ways, for example, by transforming negative affect, fostering a politics of care, and rewriting history. This volume considers how feminist, queer, and trans* musicians, filmmakers, curators, and performance artists contribute to popular culture. It explores the many ways of relating to difference, however this is conceived, that their contributions enable. What affects do their works engender? How do they rouse their audience, and to what ends? How do they fabricate and circulate provocative messages about new forms of gender, race, class, and desire? What other visions do they inspire? |
| ethnic drag: Reading Contemporary Performance Gabrielle Cody, Meiling Cheng, 2015-09-25 As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any discussion of this evolving theatricality. Specially commissioned entries from a wealth of contributors map out the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of its forms – from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The book is divided into two sections: Concepts - Key terms and ideas arranged according to the five characteristic elements of performance art: time; space; action; performer; audience. Methodologies and Turning Points - The seminal theories and ways of reading performance, such as postmodernism, epic theatre, feminisms, happenings and animal studies. Case Studies – entries in both sections are accompanied by short studies of specific performances and events, demonstrating creative examples of the ideas and issues in question. Three different introductory essays provide multiple entry points into the discussion of contemporary performance, and cross-references for each entry also allow the plotting of one’s own pathway. Reading Contemporary Performance is an invaluable guide, providing not just a solid set of familiarities, but an exploration and contextualisation of this broad and vital field. |
| ethnic drag: From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie György Ferenc Tóth, 2016-04-21 From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie examines the history of the transatlantic alliance between American Indian sovereignty activists and Central European solidarity groups, and their entry into the United Nations in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late Cold War, Native American activists engaged in transnational diplomacy for nation building by putting outside pressure on the US government for a more progressive Indian policy that reached for the full decolonization of Native American communities into independence. By using extensive multinational archival research complemented by interviews, György Ferenc Tóth investigates how older transatlantic images of American Indians influenced the alliance between Native activists and Central European groups, how this coalition developed and functioned, and how the US government and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc responded to this transatlantic alliance. This book not only places the American Indian radical sovereignty movement in an international context, but also recasts it as a transnational struggle, thus connecting domestic US social and political history to the history of Cold War transatlantic relations and global movements. |
| ethnic drag: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas, 2017-10-05 This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul’s Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture. |
| ethnic drag: The Imperialist Imagination Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne Zantop, 1998 Race relations are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and postcolonial context.Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from those in Britain and France. This volume's sixteen essays investigate how, as a consequence of these conditions, Germans imagined their relationship to racial and ethnic others: how they supported and contested colonization during the colonial period, how their colonial fantasies fed into the Nazis' racial and expansionary policies after the loss of German colonies, and how they represent their relationship to German minorities and foreigners within and outside Germany today.The contributors include scholars in literature, history, art history, political science, philosophy, ethnography, film, popular culture, photography, and theater. The anthology will appeal not only to Germanists but to all those interested in postcolonial and cultural studies. |
| ethnic drag: New German Critique , 2010 |
| ethnic drag: The Drag King Book Del Lagrace Volcano, Judith Halberstam, Jack Halberstam, 1999 What is a drag king? Why have drag kings not been as numerous or as popular as their drag queen counterparts in popular culture? Are drag kings lesbians? The Drag King Book tells you everything you've wanted to know and more about the lives and performances of contemporary male impersonators. The book profiles many different performers, among them San Francisco's larger-than-life Elvis Herselvis and New York's mackdaddy Dred, and presents interviews with drag kings alongside descriptions and analyses of actual shows. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 pictures by transgender photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, The Drag King Book is a striking testament to the multiple forms of gender variance today. |
| ethnic drag: Fighting the Two-souled Warrior Nicole Grewling, 2007 |
| ethnic drag: From Diggers to Drag Queens Fiona Jean Nicoll, 2001 A panoramic survey of the twentieth century cultural production that illuminates different iconic images through which our national identity is frequently narrated as a journey from intolerance to tolerance. Fiona Nicoll remains unconvinced and shows us why, by analysing cultural institutions, artefacts and rituals. |
| ethnic drag: Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers Mark Edward, Stephen Farrier, 2020-03-19 In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia. Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the histories, communities and politics that produced them. Chapters range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; 'bio'/faux queens; engagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity. Collectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit. |
| ethnic drag: The Men's Fashion Reader Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas, 2009 The Men's Fashion Reader brings together key writings in the history, culture and identity of men's fashion. The readings provide a balanced range of important methodological approaches, primary research and significant case studies. The book is organized into thematic sections covering topics such as history, theory, subculture, iconic items of clothing, consumption and the media. Each section is introduced and concludes with an annotated guide to further reading. With exciting illustrations of men's dress from a range of historical periods, and including readings from key scholars and new writers across a wide range of fields, The Men's Fashion Reader is the essential introduction to the subject. Introduction: The Field of Men's Fashion Part 1. A History of Men's Fashion Part 2. Masculinity and Sexuality Part 3. Icons: The Evolution of Men's Wear Part 4. Subculture Part 5. Consuming and Creating Style Conclusion |
| ethnic drag: Staging the Nation/confronting Nationalism Laura Leigh Bevis Hope, 2007 |
| ethnic drag: Germans and Indians Colin Gordon Calloway, Gerd Gemünden, Susanne Zantop, 2002 For over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German society-missionaries, writers, playwrights, anthropologists, filmmakers, non-professional hobbyists and enthusiasts, and even royalty. Today, German scholars continue to be drawn to Indians, as is the German public: tour groups from Germany frequent Plains reservations in the summer, and so-called Indianerclubs, where participants dress up in authentic Indian costume, are common. In this fascinating volume, scholars and writers illuminate the long-standing connection between Germans and the Indians.From a range of disciplines and occupations, the contributors probe the historical and cultural roots of the interactions between Germans and Indians and examine how such encounters have been represented in different media over the centuries. Particularly important are reflections and insights by modern Native American writers on this relationship. Of special concern is why such a connection has endured. As the contributors make clear, the encounters between Germans and Indians were also imagined, sometimes as fantasy, sometimes as projection, both resonating deeply with the cultural sensibilities and changing historical circumstances of Germans over the years.Colin G. Calloway is chair of Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America and The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Gerd Gemünden is a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination. The author of Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870, Susanne Zantop was a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. |
| ethnic drag: Casting Away Tradition Brandi Wilkins Catanese, 2004 |
| ethnic drag: Figures of Transnational Belonging Gina Velasco, 2008 |
| ethnic drag: Cuba and the Germans Jennifer Ruth Hosek, 2004 |
| ethnic drag: Queer Art Renate Lorenz, 2012 Proposes several new categories for consideration: the freak (a deviant being that resists the concept of a norm to deviate from), radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. |
| ethnic drag: American Mixed Race Naomi Zack, 1995 This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check. |
| ethnic drag: The Rhizomatic West Neil Campbell, 2008 Neil Campbell analyses the American West as a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture. |
| ethnic drag: Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht, 2003 Duttlinger (German, Wadham College, Oxford) introduces a dozen papers selected from a conference held in 2002 at the University of Cambridge that apply the critical theory concepts of performance and performativity to German cultural studies. Though the German language has no single equivalent for performance, English- and German-speaking scholar |
| ethnic drag: Bulletin , 2007 |
| ethnic drag: The Orient in Europe Laurel A. Plapp, 2005 |
| ethnic drag: Cosmopolitical Claims B. Venkat Mani, 2007-06 Cosmopolitical Claims is a profoundly original study of the works of Sten Nadonly, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, and 2006 Nobel prize in literature recipient Orhan Pamuk. Rather than using the proverbial hyphen in “Turkish-German” to indicate a culture caught between two nations, Venkat Mani is interested in how Turkish-German literature engages in a scrutiny of German and Turkish national identity. |
| ethnic drag: The Presentation of Racism in Contemporary German and Austrian Theater Britta Kallin, 2007 This study explores postcolonial representations of ethnic minorities and the construction of national identities in plays written by six contemporary German-speaking women playwrights, drawing on approaches of cultural and postcolonial studies, African American and other minority feminist criticism, as well as Anglo-American and German feminist scholarship. The study finds that minority characters are reduced to function as catalysts for problems of the German and Austrian community. This work will appeal to scholars in German Studies, feminist studies, and drama. |
| ethnic drag: When Life's a Drag Hilary Graham, 1993 Women's smoking in Britain, like men's, is associated with social and economic disadvantage. This book focuses on this fact, reviewing evidence and reporting on a study designed to shed light on the connections between the smoking behaviour of white working class women and their daily lives. |
| ethnic drag: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 2004 |
| ethnic drag: Out , 1992 |
| ethnic drag: Book Review Index , 2006 Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation. |
| ethnic drag: Directory Modern Language Association of America, 2002 |
| ethnic drag: New German Review , 2011 |
| ethnic drag: The British National Bibliography Arthur James Wells, 2003 |
| ethnic drag: The Cosmopolitan Screen Stephan K. Schindler, Lutz Peter Koepnick, 2007 Explores German cinema's enthusiasm for and anxiety about the blurring of postwar cultural boundaries |
| ethnic drag: LGBT Studies and Queer Theory Karen Lovaas, John P. Elia, Gust A. Yep, 2006 This edited work examines the similarities and differences between LGBT studies and queer theory and the uneasy relationship between the two in the academic world. |
| ethnic drag: Monatshefte , 2013 |
| ethnic drag: TDR. , 2007 |
| ethnic drag: Untimely Interventions Ross Chambers, 2004-09-03 Explores testimonial writing as it advances a provocative new theory of culture, trauma, genre, and denial |
| ethnic drag: Multilingual Europe Jane Warren, Heather Merle Benbow, 2008 As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others. |
| ethnic drag: First Nations of North America Hans Bak, 2005 First Nations of North America |
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