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Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany »

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Authors: Katrin Sieg
ISBN-13: 9780472033621, ISBN-10: 047203362X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: January 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Katrin Sieg

Book Synopsis

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1A Prehistory: Jewish Impersonation29
2Race and Reconstruction: Winnetou in Bad Segeberg73
3Winnetou's Grandchildren: Indian Identification, Ethnic Expertise, White Embodiment115
4The Violent White Gaze: Drag and the Critique of Fascism151
5Queer Colonialism: Ethnographic Authority and Homosexual Desire187
6Ethnic Travesties221
Conclusion255
References261
Index281

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