Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality

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Introduction Instrumental Accompaniments 1. WhoOs Been in My Closet? Mimetic Identification and the Psychosis of Class Transvestism in Single White FemaleNEllen Brinks 2. Michael JacksonOs PenisNCynthia J. Fuchs 3. The Telephone and Its QueernessNEllis Hanson 4. John Rechy and the Grammar of OstentationNRicardo L. Ortiz 5. Ecce Homo: The Prayer Closet of Metaphysical Religious Poetry and Homodevotional PornographyNRichard Rambuss Inter-Nationalist Interventions 6. Deviance and Dissidence: Sexual Subjects of the Cold WarNKatrin Sieg 7. As the Master Saw HerNParama Roy 8. Tango and the Postmodern Uses of PassionNMarta Savigliano 9. Hyphen-NationsNJennifer DeVere Brody Community Cruises 10. OWe Are FamilyO: House Music and Queer PerformativityNBrian Currid 11. Compulsory Homosociality: Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, and the Gender of PoeticsNMichael Davidson 12. Performing ONatureO: Shamu at Sea WorldNJane C. Desmond 13. OIf We Could Talk with the AnimalsO: Elephants and Musical Performance during the French RevolutionNMichael McClellan Notes on Contributors Index