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Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions

Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions - Paperback

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Availability:In StockSeries:MdwpressPublish date:6/27/2026Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:MdwpressISBN-13:9783837674750ISBN-10:3837674754UPC:9783837674750Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Sociology, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SCF4MPJC0B
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:MdwpressISBN-13:9783837674750ISBN-10:3837674754UPC:9783837674750Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Sociology, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SCF4MPJC0B
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. ---
Publisher: Mdwpress

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