Katherine A. Zien

Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone

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Produktbeschreibung

Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean.  

Produktdetails

• Critical Caribbean Studies
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780813584232
• ISBN-10: 081358423X
• Artikelnr.: 47975735

Autorenporträt

Zien, Katherine A.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Note on Text
List of Abbreviations
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