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Informationen zum Autor KATHERINE A. ZIEN is an assistant professor in the department of English at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Klappentext Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean. Zusammenfassung Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty 1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire 2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone 3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert 4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameño 5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover Coda: After Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
