American Cultures as Transnational Performance (eBook)

Content

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1. INTRODUCTION

Birgit Bauridl, Katrin Horn, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, Pia Wiegmink

COMMONS

2. The San Francisco Opera House as a Music Theater Commons: Performing Heart of a Soldier Ten Years After 9/11

Nassim Winnie Balestrini

3. Performing Il/legibility: Staging Miscegenation in in Oroonoko and Inkle and Yarico on the late Eighteenth-Century Stage

Theresa Saxon

4. Absence and Cracks in Erica Mott's Technopera 3 Singers

Andrea Zittlau

5. Transatlantic Musical Performances for American Indian Sovereignty in Late Cold War Central Europe

György Tóth

INTERVENTION I

6. Border Movement: Transnational Performance in Practice

Marina Barsy Janer, Caro Ley, Denise Uyehara, Pia Wiegmink, Andrea Zittlau

SKILLS

7. Performance Labor and Transnational Capitalism in Annie Proulx' Barkskins

Leopold Lippert

8. Fugitive Voices: Artfulness, Performance, and 'The Other' in Advertisements for African and African American Fugitives in the Early National United States

Shaun Wallace

INTERVENTION II

9. Radical Time Travel: An Interview with Denise Uyehara

Pia Wiegmink and Andrea Zittlau

TRACES

10. #god im so glad i got to go: The Monster Ball's Transnational Performances and Digital Traces

Katrin Horn

11. Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)national Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City

Juliane Braun

12. Tracing, Erasing, and Recovering Spring Path: An Eighteenth-Century 'Site of Memory' in Olaudah Equiano's Jamaica

Linda Sturtz