Afterword: Performance Studies Reorient

Abstract

Abstract:

Drawing on the print contributions to the seventy-fifth anniversary issue of Theatre Journal, this essay argues for a performance studies reorient. Rather than stabilize the field, this gambit attempts to encourage continual disciplinary reinvention that would expand the parameters of critical concern as theatre and performance studies scholars attend to widening geographies, new modes of historiography, and theoretical innovations. Emphasizing the “orient” in reorient, the writing places Asian American critique, understood as a transnational and intersectional knowledge project, as a central methodology to guide the future of the fields that the journal supports.