LEADER 03519nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910735593303321 005 20250705110024.0 010 $a9780472904068 010 $a047290406X 035 $a(CKB)4920000000049226 035 $a(dli)HEB33765 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_113370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31893944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31893944 035 $a(ODN)ODN0011598556 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000000049226 100 $a20180523e20092002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEthnic drag $eperforming race, nation, sexuality in West Germany /$fKatrin Sieg 205 $a1st pbk. ed. 210 $aAnn Arbor $cUniversity of Michigan Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 286 p. )$cill. ; 225 1 $aSocial history, popular culture, and politics in Germany 300 $aReprint. Originally published: 2002. 311 08$a9780472033621 311 08$a047203362X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-279) and index. 327 $tA prehistory : Jewish impersonation --$tRace and reconstruction : Winnetou in Bad Segeberg --$tWinnetou's grandchildren : Indian identification, ethnic expertise, white embodiment --$tThe violent white gaze : drag and the critique of fascism --$tQueer colonialism : ethnographic authority and homosexual desire --$tEthnic travesties. 330 $a"The Holocaust is considered a singularly atrocious event in human history, and many people have studied its causes. Yet few questions have been asked about the ways in which West Germans have "forgotten," unlearned, or reconstructed the racial beliefs at the core of the Nazi state in order to build a democratic society. This study looks at ethnic drag as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested "Germanness" in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions. Using engaging case studies, Ethnic Drag traces the classical and travestied traditions of Jewish impersonation from the eighteenth century onward to construct a pre-history of postwar ethnic drag. It examines how shortly after World War II mass culture and popular practices facilitated the repression and refashioning of Nazi racial precepts. During a time when American occupation authorities insisted on remembrance and redress for the Holocaust, the Wild West emerged as a displaced theater of the racial imagination, where the roles of victim, avenger, and perpetrator of genocide were reassigned"--Publisher's description 410 0$aSocial history, popular culture, and politics in Germany. 517 3 $aPerforming race, nation, sexuality in West Germany 606 $aRace awareness in art 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aArts, German$zGermany (West)$y20th century 607 $aDeutschland$2gnd 607 $aDeutschland$gBundesrepublik$2gnd 607 $aGermany (West)$2fast 608 $aE?tudes de cas. 608 $aCase studies. 608 $aHistory. 608 $aCase studies. 615 0$aRace awareness in art. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aArts, German 676 $a791/.086/930943 686 $aSOC000000$aSOC008000$aSOC022000$2bisacsh 700 $aSieg$b Katrin$f1961-$01222358 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910735593303321 996 $aEthnic drag$92834675 997 $aUNINA