@article {1192, title = {Remapping Genre through Performance: From {\textquoteleft}American{\textquoteright} to {\textquoteleft}Hemispheric{\textquoteright} Studies}, journal = {PMLA}, volume = {122}, year = {2007}, month = {October 2007}, pages = {1416-30}, chapter = {1416}, abstract = {

Performance as a genre allows for alternative mappings, providing a set of strategies and conventions that allow scholars to see practices that scripted genres might occlude. Like other genres, performance encompasses a broad range of rehearsed and codified behaviors, such as dance, theater, music recitals, sports events, and rituals. A performance lens allows scholars to look at acts, things, and ideas as performance. Looking at America as performance might explain why it is difficult to approach it as a disciplinary field of study. What might the shift in genres-from the scripted genres associated with the archive to the live, embodied behaviors that are the repertoire of cultural practices-enable? This essay proposes that an analysis of the performance of America might allow scholars to rethink not only their object of analysis but also their scholarly interactions.

}, keywords = {humanities; American studies; Latin America; genre}, issn = {0030-8129}, doi = {10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1416}, author = {Diana Taylor} }