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Author Sieg, Katrin, 1961-

Title Ethnic drag : performing race, nation, sexuality in West Germany / Katrin Sieg.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2002.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations
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Series Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
Summary "The Holocaust is considered a singularly atrocious event in human history, and many people have studied its causes. Yet few questions have been asked about the ways in which West Germans have "forgotten," unlearned, or reconstructed the racial beliefs at the core of the Nazi state in order to build a democratic society. This study looks at ethnic drag as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested "Germanness" in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions. Using engaging case studies, Ethnic Drag traces the classical and travestied traditions of Jewish impersonation from the eighteenth century onward to construct a pre-history of postwar ethnic drag. It examines how shortly after World War II mass culture and popular practices facilitated the repression and refashioning of Nazi racial precepts. During a time when American occupation authorities insisted on remembrance and redress for the Holocaust, the Wild West emerged as a displaced theater of the racial imagination, where the roles of victim, avenger, and perpetrator of genocide were reassigned"--Publisher's description
Contents A prehistory : Jewish impersonation -- Race and reconstruction : Winnetou in Bad Segeberg -- Winnetou's grandchildren : Indian identification, ethnic expertise, white embodiment -- The violent white gaze : drag and the critique of fascism -- Queer colonialism : ethnographic authority and homosexual desire -- Ethnic travesties.
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Note Print version record.
Subject Race in the theater -- Germany (West)
Gender identity in the theater -- Germany (West)
Drag performance -- Germany (West)
Ethnicity in the theater -- History.
Race awareness in art.
Race in literature.
Arts, German -- Germany (West) -- 20th century.
Racism in popular culture -- Germany (West) -- History.
Jewface -- Germany (West) -- History.
Redface -- Germany (West) -- History.
Conscience de race dans l'art.
Race dans la littérature.
Arts allemands -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- 20e siècle.
Racisme dans la culture populaire -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
Arts, German
Jewface
Race awareness in art
Race in literature
Racism in popular culture
Germany (West)
Kunst
Theater
Drama
Ethnizität Motiv
Sexualität
Künste
Kulturwandel
Rassenfrage
Deutschland Bundesrepublik
Deutschland
Toneelvoorstellingen.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Homoseksualiteit.
Beeldvorming.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Other Form: Print version: Sieg, Katrin, 1961- Ethnic drag. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2001008274 (OCoLC)48777386
ISBN 9780472904068 (electronic bk.)
047290406X (electronic bk.)
0472112821 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472112821 (cloth ; alk. paper)
047203362X (pbk.)
9780472033621 (pbk.)

 
    
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