Sovereign Acts : Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone Paperback / softback
by Katherine A. Zien
Part of the Critical Caribbean Studies series
Paperback / softback
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Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association Winner of the 2017 Annual Book Prize from the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)​Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone, from the Canal Zone’s inception in 1903 to its dissolution in 1999.
In popular entertainments and patriotic pageants, opera concerts and national theatre, white U.S. citizens, West Indian laborers, and Panamanian artists and activists used performance as a way to assert their right to the Canal Zone and challenge the Zone’s sovereignty, laying claim to the Zone’s physical space and imagined terrain. By demonstrating the place of performance in the U.S.
Empire’s legal landscape, Katherine A. Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism and its aftermath in the Panama Canal Zone and the larger U.S.-Caribbean world.Â
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 27 photographs, 2 maps
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:08/09/2017
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- ISBN:9780813584102
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 27 photographs, 2 maps
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:08/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813584102
