Approaching Transnational America in Performance. Birgit Bauridl, Pia Wiegmink

Bauridl, Birgit (Verfasser) und Pia (Verfasser) Wiegmink:

ISBN 10: 363166768X / ISBN 13: 9783631667682

Published by Frankfurt am Main : Lang, Peter Frankfurt Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2016., 2016

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351 Seiten : 13 Illustrationen ; 21 cm x 14.8 cm Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Birgit M Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink -- Approaching Transnational America in PerformanceIntroduction 7 -- John Carlos Rowe -- Decolonial Performer: Craig Santos Perez as Poet, Activist, Scholar, -- Teacher, and Blogger17 -- Ben Chappell -- The Borders that Cross Us: Ethnographic Sensibilities for Transnational -- American Studies 35 -- Leopold Lippert -- Virtual Theatricality, Transatlantic Representation, -- and Mercy Otis Warrens Revolutionary Plays57 -- Frank Obenland -- Staging the Black Atlantic: Fugitive Slaves in William Wells Browns -- The Escape (1858) 75 -- Nassim Winnie Balestrini -- In the Heights: Performing Change as Evolving Transnational Tradition 109 -- Martina Koegeler-Abdi -- Performing Little Egypt: Ashea Wabe and the American Harem Scenario 137 -- Leonard Schmieding -- Performing Heidelberg at the Golden Gate159 -- Birgit M Bauridl -- Little America Welcomes You: Transnational Tacit Performance -- at the Grafenwoehr German-American Volksfest 177 -- Frederike Offizier -- Playing (with the) Future: Biology and Preemptive Performativity209 -- Katharina Vester -- Epic (and not-so Epic) Meal Times: Gender Performance -- in YouTube Cooking Shows239 -- Julia Faisst -- Ghetto Aesthetics: Performing Spatial Inequality in The Pruitt-Igoe M yth 265 -- Claudia Trotzke -- You think your wooden barriers are keeping them inside? -- Performing Health and Spaces of Contagion in The Knick 289 -- Christine Plicht -- In 2015, we are all indigenous: Transnational Performance(s) -- at the World Indigenous Games, Palmas 321 -- List of Contributors 345 ISBN 9783631667682 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 554.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Approaching Transnational America in Performance. Birgit Bauridl, Pia Wiegmink
• Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Lang, Peter Frankfurt Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2016.
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363166768X
• ISBN 13: 9783631667682
• Binding: Festeinband
• Edition: neue Ausgabe.
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 554 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Birgit M. Bauridl is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg.

Pia Wiegmink is Assistant Professor in American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Together they head the international research network «Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies,» which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).