Ethnic Drag Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

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...

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Main Author: Sieg, Katrin (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2002
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Summary: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.
ISBN:mpub.17012
9780472904068
9780472033621
Access:Open Access