Approaching transnational America in performance / Brigit M. Bauridl, Pia Wiegmink (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauridl, Birgit M., editor.

Wiegmink, Pia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Social aspects--United States.

Performing arts.

Theater and society--United States.

Theater and society.

Performing arts--Social aspects.

United States.

Performance.

Physical Description:

351 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, [2016]

Summary:

The volume is uniquely located at the interdisciplinary crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies. As both a method and an object of study, performance deepens our understanding of transnational phenomena and America's position in the world. The thirteen original contributions make use of the field's vast potential and critically explore a wide array of cultural, political, social, and aesthetic performances on and off the stage. They scrutinize transnational trajectories and address issues central to the American Studies agenda such as representation, power, (ethnic and gender) identities, social mobility, and national imaginaries. As an American Studies endeavor, the volume highlights the cultural, political, and (inter)disciplinary implications of performance. Book jacket.

Contents:

Approaching transnational America in performance-introduction / Birgit M. Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink

Decolonial performer: Craig Santos Perez as poet, activist, scholar, teacher, and blogger / John Carlos Rowe

The borders that cross us: ethnographic sensibilities for transnational American Studies / Ben Chappell

Virtual theatricality, transatlantic representation, and Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary plays / Leopold Lippert

Staging the Black Atlantic: fugitive slaves in William Wells Brown's The Escape (1858) / Frank Obenland

In the heights: performing change as evolving transnational tradition / Nassim Winnie Balestrini

Performing Heidelberg at the Golden Gate / Leonard Schimieding

"'Little America' welcomes you": transnational tacit performance at the Grafenwoehr German-American Volkfest / Birgit M. Bauridl

Playing with the future: Biology and preemptive performativity / Frederike Offizier

Epic (and not-so epic) meal times: gender performance in YouTube cooking shows / Katharina Vester

Ghetto aesthetics: performing spatial inequality in The Pruitt-Igoe Myth / Julia Faisst

"You think your wooden brarriers are keeping them inside?" performing health and space of the contagion in the Knick / Claudia Trotzke

"In 2015, we are all indigenous": transnational performance(s) at the World Indigenous Games, Palmas / Christine Plicht.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783631667682

363166768X

OCLC:

965805087

Publisher Number:

99972587709