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Performing America abroad : transnational cultural politics in the age of neoliberal capitalism /
"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 Amer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
[2018]
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| Colección: | American studies (Munich, Germany) ;
v. 297. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Titel; Imprint; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Towards a Theory of Transnational Difference; 2.1 The Transnational Turn in American Studies; 2.2 Approaching the Transnational, or: Beyond the Nation-State?; 2.3 Studying Transnational Difference I: The Adaptation Paradigm; 2.4 Studying Transnational Difference II: The Border Paradigm; 2.5 American Exceptionalism and the Geopolitics of Neoliberalism; 2.6 Neoliberal Biopolitics and the New Spirit of Capitalism; 2.7 Ambivalent Transnationalism or: Beyond Neoliberalism?; 3 The Vicissitudes of Performative Transnationalism
- 3.1 From Discipline to Performance3.2 Performing America Abroad I: Surrogation; 3.3 Performing America Abroad II: Hauntings; 3.4 Assembling the Archive: Performance Remains; 4 Playing Indian in Austria; 4.1 Waterloo at Meidlinger Markt; 4.2 Surrogate Indianness; 4.3 Genealogies of Ethnic Drag; 4.4 Colonial Encounters and Self-Help Failures: Waterloo and the Emperor; 4.5 Performance Breakdown: „No Name City" and the Ghost of America; 4.6 Coda: Coming-of-Age the Indian Way in „Erdbeerland"; 5 Transnational Queer Performances, or: Stonewall in Vienna?; 5.1 Nationalizing the Stonewall Riots
- 5.2 The Politics of National Pedagogy5.3 Globalizing the Politics of Sexual Difference; 5.4 The Viennese Regenbogenparade as a Transnational Counter/Public; 5.5 The Politics of Performance and the Ambivalences of Neoliberalism; 6 The Survival of a Transnational Salesman; 6.1 Configurations of the American Dream; 6.2 The Transnational Performance Genealogies of „Death of a Salesman"; 6.3 Capitalism, Affect, and the Exhausted Self: The Survival of a Salesman; 6.4 Melodrama, Excess, and Americana Americanness in Stefan Pucher's „Tod eines Handlungsreisenden"
- 6.5 Consumption, Debt, and the Incursion of Futurity in Theater im Bahnhof's „Death of a Cardholder"7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Backcover