Overview
Masculinity is no longer a monolithic category, if ever it was. Long Live the King is a solid piece of scholarship that explores in depth the drag king phenomenon as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers. Maite Escudero-Alías delves into drag king culture and highlights its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality. Introduced by a well-informed theoretical chapter that traces the roots of queer theory, Long Live the King provides the reader with a rigorous textual and cultural examination of drag kings' most innovative performances of masculinity in the USA and the UK. These chapters prove groundbreaking in their acute analyses of drag kings' acts in different media, ranging from still images to live performances, documentaries, mainstream television series and literature. Theory and analysis blend perfectly and Escudero-Alías's main contention in this research – the ambivalent nature of drag kings' performances of masculinity – is conducted convincingly. This book constitutes an invaluable contribution to the field of gender studies and a fair assessment of the political impact of minority artistic practices in contemporary culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Maite Escudero-Alías
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781443802161
ISBN 10: 1443802166
Pages: 215
Publication Date: 10 February 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Objective without being objectifying, Long Live the King is the first intensive analysis of Drag Kingdom written by a self-admitted 'outsider.' The insights that Escudero-Alias offers into this world of performative masculinities are funneled through the lens of Butlerian feminism, yet tempered by a frank admiration for the Kings and their work. This book offers a unique perspective that complements extant work on Drag Kings and is a must-read for anyone interested in gender performance or female masculinities. - Sara E. Cooper, Chair, Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Expression Discussion Group, MLA, Associate Professor of Spanish and Multicultural & Gender Studies, California State University
""Objective without being objectifying, Long Live the King is the first intensive analysis of Drag Kingdom written by a self-admitted 'outsider.' The insights that Escudero-Alías offers into this world of performative masculinities are funneled through the lens of Butlerian feminism, yet tempered by a frank admiration for the Kings and their work. This book offers a unique perspective that complements extant work on Drag Kings and is a must-read for anyone interested in gender performance or female masculinities.""- Sara E. Cooper, Chair, Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Expression Discussion Group, MLA, Associate Professor of Spanish and Multicultural & Gender Studies, California State University
Author Information
Maite Escudero-Alías is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, having wrote her doctoral thesis on queer theory and drag kings in 2006. She has published articles and book chapters in various scholarly journals and prestigious publishers in the fields of literary criticism, feminism and cultural studies. She is also the co-editor of Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature (2017).
