Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender Transcultural Perspectives [Hardcover]

Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including literature, film, documentary, and (music) video performance. The first section, Political Agency, stresses instances where the performance of ethnicity/gender ultimately aims at a liberating effect leading to more autonomy. The second section, Diasporic Belonging, explores the different kinds of negotiations of ethnic performances in multi-ethnic contexts. The third part, Performances of Ethnicity and Gender scrutinizes instances of the combined performance of ethnicity and gender in novels, films, and musical performances. The last section Cross-Ethnic Traffic contains a number of contributions that are concerned with attempts at crossing over from one ethnicity into another by way of performance.

Introduction(Monika Mueller and Bettina Hofmann)

1. Old Print Media, Radical Ideas and Vernacular Performance in the Life and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown (Alan Rice)

2. Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Performing Migrant Identity in Two Italian African Memoirs (William Boelhower)

3. Recovering Queequeqs Body: Performing Alterna(rra)tives in the Borderlands (Astrid Fellner)

4. Limning the Limit or Notes toward an Outline of Activist Performance at the Limit (Samir Dayal)

5.Performing Ethno-Cultural Identity in R?ka Pigniczkys Autobiographical Documentary Incubator(M?nika Fodor)

6. Diasporic Bollywood: Fusionist Practices and GlÓ: