标题 | Remapping Genre through Performance: From ‘American’ to ‘Hemispheric’ Studies |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Taylor, Diana |
Journal | PMLA |
音量 | 122 |
发行 | 5 |
Pagination | 1416-30 |
ISSN | 0030-8129 |
关键词 | humanities; American studies; Latin America; genre |
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. |
DOI | 10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1416 |