Sovereign Acts - Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone

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.  

List of contents

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

About the author

Zien, Katherine A.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors	Katherine A. Zien
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	30.09.2017
EAN	9780813584232
ISBN	978-0-8135-8423-2
No. of pages	272
Series	Critical Caribbean Studies; Critical Caribbean Studies
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries

Product details

• Authors: Katherine A. Zien
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780813584232
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8423-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies; Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries