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Subjects:

Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States.
Theater and society -- United States.
Performance.
Performing arts -- Social aspects.
Theater and society.
United States.

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.

Contributor:

Bauridl, Birgit M., editor.
Wiegmink, Pia, editor.

ISBN:

9783631667682
363166768X
983653064353 (ePDF)
783631701553 (ePub)
783631701560 (MOBI)

OCLC:

965805087

Publisher Number:

99972587709