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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sieg, Katrin, 1961-

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness in art.

Race in literature.

Arts, German--Germany (West)--20th century.

Arts, German.

Germany (West).

Genre:

Études de cas.

Case studies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 286 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Other Title:

Performing race, nation, sexuality in West Germany

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009.

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.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-279) and index.

Description based on print version.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780472904068

047290406X

OCLC:

1587894058

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.17012