Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. OPENING
4. Notes on Facing Drag 11
5. Caribbean Critical Thought and “Drag” Performances of Indigenization 25
6. TEMPORAL DRAG AND QUEERING FABULATIONS
7. Transtemporal Making-Out—On “Temporal Drag” in Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s So Pretty (2019) 37
8. “Whose Portrait?” Fabulations and Triangulations in Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason (1967) 55
9. PERFORMING ALONG “THE” COLOR LINE
10. Blackface from Time to Time 73
11. Reading the Blackened Faces of the Ku-Klux Klan in the Reconstruction-Era United States 87
12. Gender Bending in the Southern Babylon: Black “Female Impersonators” in 1940s to 1960s New Orleans 103
13. FACING CONTEMPORARY COMMODIFICATION
14. Digital Blackface and Memetic Ambiguity 137
15. On Arab Masquerades and Necropolitics: Invisibilization and Hypervisibilization in Israeli Popular Culture 151
16. STAGING (POST)COLONIAL RELATIONS
17. Borrowed Plumes, Jesuit Drag, and Costumes as Uncontrollable Residuals 169
18. Japonist Drag: Performing Entangled Exoticisms in Dance and Theater around 1900 189
19. EPILOGUE
20. nora chipaumire in conversation with Jay Pather 221
21. Acknowledgments 231
22. Postscript 233
23. Biographies 235
24. About mdwPress 239