Games of hide and seek: Race, gender and drag in the crying game and the birdcage

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-216

  Evans, Nicola ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackface; Drag; Film criticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345239328     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462939809366224     Document Type: Article

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