Unpeeling the banana dance: The quare fugitivity of Joséphine Baker.

The article explores the quare fugitivity unveiled by French bisexual dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker in her cultural performance of the banana dance. Topics discussed are Baker as a queer agent of her own self-fashioning based on African American feminist and queer theory, Baker as a French colonial subject with her portrayal of a former circus attraction and cabaret sensation in the musical "Zouzou," and "Zouzou" interpreted as a French imperial ideology and autobiography.