Cruising the performative : [electronic resource] interventions into the representation of ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality / edited by Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who's been in my closet? Mimetic identification and the psychosis of class transvestism in Single white female / Ellen Brinks -- Michael Jackson's penis / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- The telephone and its queerness / Ellis Hanson -- John Rechy and the grammar of ostentation / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- Homodevotion / Richard Rambuss -- Deviance and dissidence : sexual subjects of the Cold War / Katrin Sieg -- As the master saw her / Parama Roy -- Tango and the postmodern uses of passion / Marta E. Savigliano -- Hyphen-nations / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- "We are family" : house music and queer performativity / Brian Currid -- Compulsory homosociality : Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, and the gender of poetics / Michael Davidson -- Performing "nature" : Shamu at Sea World / Jane C. Desmond -- "If we could talk with the animals" : elephants and musical performance during the French Revolution / Michael E. McClellan.