Dragging by Shaka McGlotten - 9780367439521

Taylor & Francis

DraggingOr, in the Drag of a Queer Life\nAuthor(s): Shaka McGlotten\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367439521, 978-0367439521\nSynopsis\nDragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life is an assemblage of fragments that collectively tell stories about a diverse group of artists and activists for whom drag serves as inspiration, method, object, and aim. \n\nMethodologically grounded in ethnography, Dragging incorporates auto-theoretical material that lays bare the intimacies of research, teaching, and loving, as well as their painful failures. Drag is more than gender impersonation, and it is more than resistance to norms. It is productively messy and ambivalent, and in these and other ways can serve to attune us to political and aesthetic alternatives to the increasingly widespread desire to be led.\n\nOne of very few books about drag by an anthropologist, and using a uniquely personal approach, Dragging is an ethnog.