Verlag:
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt a.M
Located at the crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies, the volume critically explores a rich field of on- and off-stage, aesthetic and everyday performances. It demonstrates that performance constitutes both a primary...
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Located at the crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies, the volume critically explores a rich field of on- and off-stage, aesthetic and everyday performances. It demonstrates that performance constitutes both a primary method and an object of study for transnational phenomena and America's position in the world Cover -- Contents -- Approaching Transnational America in Performance-Introduction (Birgit M. Bauridl / 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 'Little Egypt': Ashea Wabe and the American Harem Scenario (Martina Koegeler-Abdi) -- Performing Heidelberg at the Golden Gate (Leonard Schmieding) -- "'Little America' Welcomes You": Transnational Tacit Performance at the Grafenwoehr German-American Volksfest (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 barriers are keeping them inside?" Performing Health and Spaces of Contagion in The Knick (Claudia Trotzke) -- "In 2015, we are all indigenous": Transnational Performance(s) at the World Indigenous Games, Palmas (Christine Plicht) -- List of Contributors
