Drag Vistas and Visions

Mark Edward is a recovering academic, performer, artist and author.Stephen Farrier is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Deputy Principal of Rose Bruford College.

• Preface: Mark Edward and Stephen FarrierNotes on ContributorsForeword by Cheddar Gorgeous1. From Mainstream to Contextual Drag: Visionary Methods for “Ordinary” Drag, Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier2. Decolonising Drag: When Queer Asian Artists Do Drag, Hongwei Bao3. Charting Progress: Chinese Drag Performances 2010-2020, Tan Chengyu4. “My first words were knock-knock-knock housekeeping”: Queer Femme Brownness, Humor, and Whiteness’ Performative Drag, Michael Tristano Jr. and Lore/tta LeMaster5. Drag Queens as Figure Heads in the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights, Garjan Sterk6. Contemporary Drag in the Shadow of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Adaption, Elevation and Contestation, Mark McCormack and Fiona Measham7. Getting Classy with Drag Performance: Class as Framework, Stephen Farrier8. Same Old Thing in Brand New Drag: Bowie, Drag, Camp and the Singular Vision of the Ever-Changing Cis White Duke, Matthew Pateman9. Camp Quips: drag, access and queer crip joy as an act of resistance, Amelia Lander-Cavallo and Al Lander-Cavallo10. How Does a Dyke Perform Herself? Accessorized Identity in 3 Acts, Wendy Chapkis11. Linguistics of Drag: Drag Queens and Linguistic Performance of “Feminine” Identity, Maria Szymanska12. You’ve Been Framed: Sketching Out the Contours of a Drag-Queer Interpretive Framework, Mark Edward and Chris Greenough.Afterword: Yet, Not The Last Word, Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier

If you are interested in the history and academic aspects of Drag, this book is for you. The assorted chapters written by different experts give different views of Drag all around the world.