Drag Histories Herstories and Hairstories

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Drag Histories Herstories and Hairstories
Drag Histories Herstories and Hairstories
Product Specifications
  • Title: Drag Histories Herstories and Hairstories
  • Author: Drag Histories Herstories and Hairstories
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Theatre studies
  • No. of pages: 256
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 223 x 152 x 22

Product Description

Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline this book examines how drag performance is a political socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and memory.

The book examines drag histories and what drag does with history how it enacts or tells stories about remembering and the past. Featuring work about the USA UK and Ireland Japan Australia Brazil and Barbados this book allows the reader to engage with a range of archival research including camp and history; ethnicity and drag; queering ballet through drag; the connections between drag king and queen history; queering pantomime performance; drag and military veterans; Puerto Rican drag performers and historical film.