American Cultures as Transnational Performance

Katrin Horn is an assistant professor of American studies and Anglophone literatures and cultures at the University of Bayreuth. Leopold Lippert is an assistant professor at the English Department at the University of Münster.Ilka Saal is a professor of American literature at the University of Erfurt.Pia Wiegmink is an assistant professor in the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

• ContentAcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations1. INTRODUCTIONBirgit Bauridl, Katrin Horn, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, Pia WiegminkCOMMONS2. 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 StageTheresa Saxon 4. Absence and Cracks in Erica Mott’s Technopera 3 SingersAndrea Zittlau 5. Transatlantic Musical Performances for American Indian Sovereignty in Late Cold War Central EuropeGyörgy Tóth INTERVENTION I6. Border Movement: Transnational Performance in PracticeMarina Barsy Janer, Caro Ley, Denise Uyehara, Pia Wiegmink, Andrea Zittlau SKILLS7. Performance Labor and Transnational Capitalism in Annie Proulx’ BarkskinsLeopold Lippert 8. Fugitive Voices: Artfulness, Performance, and ‘The Other’ in Advertisements for African and African American Fugitives in the Early National United StatesShaun Wallace INTERVENTION II9. Radical Time Travel: An Interview with Denise UyeharaPia Wiegmink and Andrea Zittlau TRACES10. #god im so glad i got to go: The Monster Ball’s Transnational Performances and Digital TracesKatrin Horn 11. Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)national Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided CityJuliane Braun 12. Tracing, Erasing, and Recovering Spring Path: An Eighteenth-Century ‘Site of Memory’ in Olaudah Equiano’s JamaicaLinda Sturtz