Introduction / Birgit Bauridl, Katrin Horn, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, Pia Wiegmink -- The San Francisco Opera House as a music theater commons : performing Heart of a soldier ten years after 9/11 / Nassim Winnie Balestrini -- Performing il/legibility : staging miscegenation in in Oroonoko and Inkle and Yarico on the late eighteenth-century stage / Theresa Saxon -- Absence and cracks in Erica Mott's technopera 3 singers / Andrea Zittlau -- Transatlantic musical performances for American Indian sovereignty in late Cold War Central Europe / Gyorgy Toth -- Border movement : transnational performance in practice / Marina Barsy Janer, Caro Ley, Denise Uyehara, Pia Wiegmink, Andrea Zittlau -- Performance labor and transnational capitalism in Annie Proulx' Barkskins / Leopold Lippert -- Fugitive voices : artfulness, performance, and 'the other' in advertisements for African and African American fugitives in the early national United States / Shaun Wallace -- Radical time travel : an interview with Denise Uyehara / Pia Wiegmink and Andrea Zittlau -- #god im so glad i got to go : The monster ball's transnational performances and digital traces / Katrin Horn -- Theater of war : reconstructing (trans)national affiliation and performance residue in a divided city / Juliane Braun -- Tracing, erasing, and recovering spring path : an eighteenth-century 'site of memory' in Olaudah Equiano's Jamaica / Linda Sturtz.
Summary:
"This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. Structured around key concepts of Performance Studies--commons, skills, and traces, this edited collection addresses the political, normative, and historical implications of cultural performances beyond the limits of the (U.S.) nation-state. These three central aspects of performance function as entryways to inquiries into transnational processes and allow the authors to shift the discussion away from text-centered approaches to intercultural encounters and to bring into focus the dynamic field that opens up between producer, art work, context, setting, and audience in the moment of performance as well as in its afterlife. The essays provide fresh, performance-based approaches to notions of transcultural mobility and circulation, transnational cultural experience and knowledge formation, transnational public spheres, and identities' rootedness in both specific local places or diasporic worlds beyond the written word. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Transnational Studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
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