Performing America abroad
Subtitle: transnational cultural politics in the age of neoliberal capitalism
By: Leopold Lippert
Series: American studies - a monograph series -- volume 297; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 297.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9783825369392
Subjects: Arts and transnationalism; Transnationalism; Intercultural communication in the performing arts; Intercultural communication; Cultural relations; National characteristics, American, in art; National characteristics in the theater; Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations; American National characteristics
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-241).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Towards a theory of transnational difference; title: The vicissitudes of performative transnationalism; title: Playing Indian in Austria; title: Transnational queer performances, or: Stonewall in Vienna?; title: The survival of the transnational salesman.