{"id":5961,"date":"2025-11-12T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:44:35","slug":"facing-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/en\/facing-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Drag. 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Using diverse case studies, the volume examines acts of crossing, appropriation, and re-signification in performance, highlighting their political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions. It expands the concept of drag beyond gender bending, investigating its intersections with 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.<\/p>\n<p>With contributions from Evelyn Annu\u00df, nora chipaumire, Sam Ehrentraut, Zimitri Erasmus, Elaine S. Frantz, Aur\u00e9lie Godet, Karin Harrasser, Nanna Heidenreich, Katrin K\u00f6ppert, Eric Lott, Julia Ostwald, Jay Pather and Raz Weiner.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div><div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h4>Metadata<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">Publication:<\/span>December 2025<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">Print Length:<\/span>240 pages<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">License:<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Open_Access_logo.png\" alt=\"OA-Logo\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/> <span style=\"color: #f47500;\">Open Access<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cc.svg\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" alt=\"CC-Logo\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/by.svg\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" alt=\"BY-Logo\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\/> <\/a>| CC-BY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">DOI:<\/span>10.14361\/9783839471708<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">Print-ISBN:<\/span>978-3-8376-8118-5<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">PDF-ISBN:<\/span>978-3-8394-7170-8<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 40%;\">EPUB-ISBN:<\/span>978-3-7328-0015-5<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last\">\n<h4>About the author<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Evelyn Annu\u00df<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8401-9013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/orcid.png\" alt=\"orcid\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a> is professor of gender studies and director of the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raz Weiner<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8869-3945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdw.ac.at\/mdwpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/orcid.png\" alt=\"orcid\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a> (Dr.) is a scholar of performance studies, politics, and embodiment. 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. 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