Sovereign Acts

Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvKatherine A. Zien,Katherine A Zien

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Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies AssociationWinner 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-09-08
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Caribbean Studies
Antal sidor272
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813584102

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List of Illustrations and TablesNote on TextList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scÈne: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameÑo5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal HandoverCoda: After SovereigntyAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"By pairing archival research with the analysis of a fascinating array of theatrical and political performances, built environment, and civic recreation, Zien innovatively posits the construction of citizenship and belonging in Panama’s Canal Zone throughout the 20th century as an intricate, performative process. A must-read for anyone interested in sites of contested sovereignty." - Camilla Stevens (author of Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama) "Examines the 'performance' of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999." (Chronicle)