Research Catalog

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Description

1. xii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Sovereign Acts investigates the ways that artists, audiences, and activists performed their allegiances to the Panama Canal Zone over a century of US-Panama tensions, in which the Canal Zone's contested sovereignty played a central part. The book examines a series of performances that punctuated the Canal Zone's existence, from its inception in 1903 to its dissolution in 1999, and into the post-occupation present. White US citizens, West Indian labor migrants, and Panamanian artists and activists employed performances--ranging from popular entertainments and patriotic pageants to opera concerts and national theatre--to assert and challenge the Canal Zone's sovereignty, claiming their places in the Zone's physical terrain and representational imaginary. These performances were at once located within the Canal Zone and embedded in transnational flows of US empire, neoliberal capitalism, black internationalism, anticolonial movements, and regional migration. By demonstrating the place of performance in US empire's legal landscape, Sovereign Acts aims to transform our understanding of US imperialism and its aftermath in Panama and what Frank Guridy calls the "US-Caribbean world.""--

Series statement

1. Critical Caribbean studies

Uniform title

1. Critical Caribbean studies.

Subject

1. Panamanian drama
2. Theater
3. Canal Zone
4. Literature and society
5. Panama
6. Canal Zone > Intellectual life
7. Literature and society > Panama
8. Sovereignty
9. Panama > Panama Canal
10. Literature
11. Panamanian drama > 20th century > History and criticism
12. Theater > Panama > History
13. Panama Canal (Panama) > In literature
14. National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature
15. Intellectual life
16. History
17. Criticism, interpretation, etc
18. 1900-1999

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. Introduction : Setting the Scene of Sovereignty -- Sovereignty's Mise-en-scène : The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire -- Entertaining Sovereignty : The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone -- Beyond Sovereignty : Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert -- National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty : Staging el pueblo panameño -- Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover -- Coda : After Sovereignty.

Call number

1. Sc E 18-201

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-253) and index.

Author

1. Zien, Katherine, 1981- author.

Title

1. Sovereign acts : performing race, space, and belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone / Katherine A. Zien.

Publisher

1. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Critical Caribbean studies
2. Critical Caribbean studies.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-253) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

LCCN

1. 2016053263

ISBN

1. 9780813584232 hardcover
2. 081358423X hardcover
3. 9780813584102 paperback
4. 0813584108 paperback

Research call number

1. Sc E 18-201