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