Masquerade and Identities : Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality

ISBN-13: 9780415251068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str.

Efrat Tseelon

Opis

Masquerade is now a central topic in many disciplines. This volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing, or representing marginalised identities. The contributors have a range of areas of expertise giving the book an interdisciplinary approach. This eclectic collection spans a range of cultures and narrative voices to offer discussions of: mask and carnival; the voice as mask; stigma of illegitimacy; fashion, fetish and fantasy; lesbian masks; cross-dressing in Jewish folk theatre; and the mask in 17th- and 18th-century London and 19th-century France. The book provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masking and masquerade and shows that there is no such thing as a single or true identity.

Spis treści

List of plates, List of contributors, Foreword by Susan B. Kaiser, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: masquerade and identities, 1. Reflections on mask and carnival, 2. Stigma, uncertain identity and skill in disguise, 3. Lesbian masks: beauty and other negotiations, 4. Fashion, fetish, fantasy, 5. Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The Crying Game, 6. The scarf and the toothache: cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre, 7. The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, 8. Masked and unmasked at the opera balls: Parisian women celebrate carnival, 9. On women and clothes and carnival fools, Index

O autorze

Efrat Tseëlon; Susan Kaiser