This network explores the potential of an integration of Performance Studies approaches into the field of transnational American Studies. In sum, the network scrutinizes the benefits and limitations of a deeper and more reflective integration of a Performance Studies approach into American Studies. By bringing together scholars of Performance and American Studies from the US, Europe, and Asia, it constitutes an exemplary site of transnational collaboration and establishes a dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.
The volume is uniquely located at the interdisciplinary crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies. As both a method and an object of study, performance deepens our understanding of transnational phenomena and America's position in the world.
The thirteen original contributions make use of the field's vast potential and critically explore a wide array of cultural, political, social, and aesthetic performances on and off the stage.
They scrutinize transnational trajectories and address issues central to the American Studies agenda such as representation, power, ethnic and gender identities, social mobility, and national imaginaries.
As an American Studies endeavor, the volume highlights the cultural, political, and inter disciplinary implications of performance. Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. Bauridl, Birgit M. Approaching Transnational America in Performance. Peter Lang , Braun, Juliane. University of Virginia Press, Forthcoming. Topologies - Temporalities β Trajectories, edited by Nanne Buurman et al.
