Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance

Book chapter

Harilaos Stecopoulos

A Concise Companion to American Studies, pp.245-262

Wiley‐Blackwell

04/16/2010

DOI: 10.1002/9781444319071.ch12

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This chapter contains sections titled: Notes and References

Cities of the Dead: Circum‐Atlantic Performance, Joseph Roach ‐ “an alternative historical model of intercultural encounter, based on performance”

El Vez (Robert Lopez), performance artist ‐ “swagger, attitude and groove” and a voice “tight as a fist”

emphasis on Caribbean border in Roach's work ‐ contemporary US–Mexico border zone

field of hemispheric American studies and novel, non‐fiction prose and film

hemispheric American culture ‐ New World response to canonical European drama, The Tempest

Performance Studies ‐ fitting with recent transnational turn among US‐based Americanists

The Dialectics of Our America ‐ surveying New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches to The Tempest

western hemispheric drama and performance

Title: Subtitle: Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance
Creators: Harilaos Stecopoulos - University of Iowa
Contributors: John Carlos Rowe (Editor) - University of Southern California, USA
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: A Concise Companion to American Studies, pp.245-262
Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell; Oxford, UK
DOI: 10.1002/9781444319071.ch12
Number of pages: 17
Language: English
Date published: 04/16/2010
Academic Unit: English
Record Identifier: 9984397924802771

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