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Description

1. 245 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "What happens to 'America' when it does not coincide with the geographical and institutional boundaries of the U.S. nation-state? What does 'America' mean when it is performed abroad and circulates among populations and publics outside U.S. national contexts? Performing America Abroad explores an unlikely American studies archive: contemporary cultural performances in Austria and Germany which refer to the American cultural imaginary, but enact it with a 'transnational' difference. The book discusses the ambivalent cultural politics of these enactments in the context of neoliberal capitalism; specifically, it looks at several cross-racial performances of 'Indianness' on various Austrian stages, it examines the queer political demonstrators on Vienna's central Ringstraße, who celebrate the legacy of the 1969 New York Stonewall riots, and it discusses the 'Americanness' of a series of theatrical adaptations of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman in Germany and Austria." -- Back cover.

Series statement

1. American studies - a monograph series, 0178-1987 ; volume 297

Uniform title

1. American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 297.

Subject

1. United States
2. National characteristics, American
3. Cultural relations
4. 2000-2099
5. Arts and transnationalism
6. United States > Foreign relations > 21st century
7. National characteristics, American, in art
8. Transnationalism
9. Intercultural communication
10. National characteristics in the theater
11. Diplomatic relations
12. Intercultural communication in the performing arts

Contents

1. Introduction -- Towards a theory of transnational difference -- The vicissitudes of performative transnationalism -- Playing Indian in Austria -- Transnational queer performances, or: Stonewall in Vienna? -- The survival of the transnational salesman.

Call number

1. JFD 19-471

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-241).

Author

1. Lippert, Leopold, author.

Title

1. Performing America abroad : transnational cultural politics in the age of neoliberal capitalism / Leopold Lippert.

Publisher

1. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. American studies - a monograph series, 0178-1987 ; volume 297
2. American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 297.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-241).

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

ISBN

1. 9783825369392 hardcover
2. 3825369390 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFD 19-471