Abstract

This article offers an ethnography of Malaysian youth who perform cross-gender K-pop dance. In the context of Malaysia’s hegemonic masculinity, I explore the wider cultural space within K-pop dance for nonnormative gender expression, which is usually stigmatized. Drawing on Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity, Kareem Khubchandani’s approach to Asian drag, and Erving Goffman’s stigma theory, I analyze the challenges of male Malay K-pop performers to Islamic norms and hegemonic masculinity. I argue that Muslim Malay K-pop dancers make use of performance as a context to traverse religious and gendered norms.

摘要

本文介绍了表演跨性别韩国流行舞蹈的马来西亚年轻人的民族志。在马来西亚男性霸权的背景下，我探索了韩国流行舞蹈中更广泛的文化空间，以寻求非规范的性别表达，这种表达通常受到污名化。借鉴朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler）关于性别表演性的研究、卡里姆·库布昌达尼（Kareem Khubchandani）对亚洲变装的看法，以及欧文·戈夫曼（Erving Goffman）的耻辱理论，我分析了马来韩国流行音乐男性表演者对伊斯兰规范和霸权男子气概的挑战。我认为穆斯林马来韩国流行舞者利用表演作为背景来穿越宗教和性别规范。