A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

A group of scholars from across the Americas examine the intersections of performance and the border as critical strategies for understanding contemporary cultural shifts across the hemisphere

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Border Moves; R.H.Rivera-Servera & H.Young Playing the Fence, Listening to the Line: Sound, Sound Art, and Acoustic Politics at the US-Mexico Border; J.Kun Transnational Cultural Translations and the Meaning of Danzón across Borders; A.Madrid 'Havana Isn't Waiting: Staging Travel during Cuba's Special Period; P.Ybarra 'Architecture is not Justice': Seeing Guantánamo Bay; P.Anderson Crossing Hispaniola: Cultural Erotics at the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands; R.H.Rivera-Servera 'The Magic of Song!': John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the Staging of Circulation; P.A.McGinley Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads; E.P.Johnson Calling off the Border Patrol; R.Knowles Transborder Dance: Choreographies by Minerva Tapia; J.M.Valenzuela The Epistemology of the Minor Native in Transcolonial Border Zones; E.-B.Lim Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears& US Museum Culture; H.Young Poor Enrique andPoor María, Or, the Political Economy of Suffering in Two Migrant Melodramas; A.E.Puga New Tropicalism: Performance on the Shifting Borders of Caribbean Disappearance; L.Fiet Performance in the Borderlands Roundtable; P.Anderson, L.Fiet, R.Knowles, E.-B.Lim, P.A.McGinley, A.E.Puga, R.H.Rivera-Servera, P.Ybarra & H.Young Index