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Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness (Hardcover)
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Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness (Hardcover)
Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
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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 bookwill 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.
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