Facing Drag

Gender Bending and Racialized Masking in Performing Arts and Popular Culture

Evelyn Annuß, Raz Weiner (eds.)

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Opening

Notes on Facing Drag

Evelyn Annuß

Caribbean Critical Thought and “Drag” Performances of Indigenization

Zimitri Erasmus

Temporal Drag and Queering Fabulations

Transtemporal Making-Out—On “Temporal Drag” in Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s So Pretty (2019)

Sam Ehrentraut

“Whose Portrait?” Fabulations and Triangulations in Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason (1967)

Nanna Heidenreich

Performing along “the” Color Line

Blackface from Time to Time

Eric Lott

Reading the Blackened Faces of the Ku-Klux Klan in the Reconstruction-Era United States

Elaine S. Frantz

Gender Bending in the Southern Babylon: Black “Female Impersonators” in 1940s to 1960s New Orleans

Aurélie Godet

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Facing Contemporary Commodification

Digital Blackface and Memetic Ambiguity

Katrin Köppert

On Arab Masquerades and Necropolitics: Invisibilization and Hypervisibilization in Israeli Popular Culture

Raz Weiner

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Staging (Post)Colonial Relations

Borrowed Plumes, Jesuit Drag, and Costumes as Uncontrollable Residuals

Karin Harrasser

Japonist Drag: Performing Entangled Exoticisms in Dance and Theater around 1900

Julia Ostwald

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Epilogue

nora chipaumire in conversation with Jay Pather

Acknowledgments

Postscript

Biographies

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