23 English eng Granshaw, Michelle Contributor <p>This special section introduces the application of <span data-start="283" data-end="306" style="">Performance Studies</span> to the study of the early Americas. Rather than treating literature, history, and culture as primarily textual phenomena, the contributors examine how identity, power, race, gender, religion, and politics were enacted through performances, rituals, bodily practices, and public spectacles.<br></p> University of North Carolina Press 2016 pdf ISSN 0012-8163 Early American Literature Special Section: Performance Studies in the Early Americas mixed material University of North Carolina Press