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Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness

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Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness

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Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness

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Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness book

ByKatie Horowitz
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 25 October 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449314
Pages 134
eBook ISBN 9780429449314
Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
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Horowitz, K. (2019). Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449314

ABSTRACT

This story of drag kings and queens at Cleveland, Ohio’s most popular gay bar reveals that these genres have little in common and introduces interperformance, a framework for identity formation and coalition building that provides strategies for repairing longstanding rifts in the LGBT community.

Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness is the first book centered on queer life in this growing midwestern hub and the first to focus simultaneously on kinging and queening. It shows that despite the shared heading of drag, these iconically queer institutions diverge in terms of audience, movement vocabulary, stage persona, and treatment of gender, class, race, and sexuality. Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men and challenges the assumption that all identities subsumed under the queer umbrella ought to have anything in common culturally, politically, or otherwise. Drawing on performer interviews about the purpose of drag, contestations over space, and the eventual shuttering of the bar they called home, Horowitz offers a new way of thinking about identity as a product of relations and argues that relationality is our best hope for building queer communities across lines of difference.

The book will be key reading for students and faculty in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; performance studies; American studies; cultural studies; ethnography; and rhetoric. It will be useful to graduate students and faculty interested in queer culture, gender performance, and transgender studies. At the same time, the clear and relatable writing style will make it accessible to undergraduates and well suited to upper-level courses in queer theory, LGBTQ identities, performance studies, and qualitative research methods.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

“Radically Different Agendas”

chapter 1|26 pages

Kinging

chapter 2|15 pages

Queening

chapter 3|24 pages

Gesturing back

A genealogy of drag genders

chapter 4|16 pages

Gesturing forward

Drag spaces and solidarities

chapter |16 pages

Conclusion

Is drag still queer?
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