Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone
(Part of the Critical Caribbean Studies Series)
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Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the CSA and the 2017 Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Book Prize 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813584108
ISBN13:9780813584102
Release Date:September 2017
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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