Masquerade and Identities

Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artificeThe book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masquerade as a tool for construction, and a tool for critique. The essays interrogate such themes as*mask and carniva*fetish fashio*stigma of illegitimac*femininity as masquerad*lesbian mask*cross-dressing in Jewish folk theatr*the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth century London and nineteenth century Franc*the voice as mask.