TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zien,Katherine A.
TI  - Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone 
T2  - Critical Caribbean Studies
SN  - 9780813584102
U1  - 862/.60997287 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Panama
KW  - National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature
KW  - Panamanian drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Theater
KW  - History
KW  - 1903
KW  - Caribbean
KW  - West India
KW  - activism
KW  - canal zone
KW  - imperialism
KW  - panama canal
KW  - panama
KW  - united states
KW  - us imperialism
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations and Tables --; Note on Text --; List of Abbreviations --; SOVEREIGN ACTS --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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