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Performing America Abroad
Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 297
2018
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Abstract
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 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | 3 | ||
| Imprint | 4 | ||
| Table of Contents | 5 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 7 | ||
| 2 Towards a Theory of Transnational Difference | 17 | ||
| 2.1 The Transnational Turn in American Studies | 17 | ||
| 2.2 Approaching the Transnational, or: Beyond the Nation-State? | 20 | ||
| 2.3 Studying Transnational Difference I: The Adaptation Paradigm | 26 | ||
| 2.4 Studying Transnational Difference II: The Border Paradigm | 34 | ||
| 2.5 American Exceptionalism and the Geopolitics of Neoliberalism | 44 | ||
| 2.6 Neoliberal Biopolitics and the New Spirit of Capitalism | 51 | ||
| 2.7 Ambivalent Transnationalism or: Beyond Neoliberalism? | 57 | ||
| 3 The Vicissitudes of Performative Transnationalism | 61 | ||
| 3.1 From Discipline to Performance | 61 | ||
| 3.2 Performing America Abroad I: Surrogation | 71 | ||
| 3.3 Performing America Abroad II: Hauntings | 77 | ||
| 3.4 Assembling the Archive: Performance Remains | 86 | ||
| 4 Playing Indian in Austria | 95 | ||
| 4.1 Waterloo at Meidlinger Markt | 95 | ||
| 4.2 Surrogate Indianness | 106 | ||
| 4.3 Genealogies of Ethnic Drag | 110 | ||
| 4.4 Colonial Encounters and Self-Help Failures: Waterloo and the Emperor | 116 | ||
| 4.5 Performance Breakdown: „No Name City“ and the Ghost of America | 125 | ||
| 4.6 Coda: Coming-of-Age the Indian Way in „Erdbeerland“ | 136 | ||
| 5 Transnational Queer Performances, or: Stonewall in Vienna? | 143 | ||
| 5.1 Nationalizing the Stonewall Riots | 143 | ||
| 5.2 The Politics of National Pedagogy | 151 | ||
| 5.3 Globalizing the Politics of Sexual Difference | 155 | ||
| 5.4 The Viennese Regenbogenparade as a Transnational Counter/Public | 159 | ||
| 5.5 The Politics of Performance and the Ambivalences of Neoliberalism | 168 | ||
| 6 The Survival of a Transnational Salesman | 177 | ||
| 6.1 Configurations of the American Dream | 177 | ||
| 6.2 The Transnational Performance Genealogies of „Death of a Salesman“ | 184 | ||
| 6.3 Capitalism, Affect, and the Exhausted Self: The Survival of a Salesman | 193 | ||
| 6.4 Melodrama, Excess, and Americana Americanness in Stefan Pucher’s „Tod eines Handlungsreisenden“ | 206 | ||
| 6.5 Consumption, Debt, and the Incursion of Futurity in Theater im Bahnhof’s „Death of a Cardholder“ | 213 | ||
| 7 Conclusion | 221 | ||
| Bibliography | 223 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 243 | ||
| Backcover | 246 |
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