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

Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Critical Caribbean studies Critical Caribbean studies. Contents Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Note on Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty; Chapter 1: Sovereignty's Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire; Chapter 2: Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone; Chapter 3: Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert; Chapter 4: National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameño; Chapter 5: Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover Coda: After SovereigntyAcknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author Summary "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.""-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sovereignty. National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature. Literature and society -- Panama Theater -- Panama -- History Panamanian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism sovereignty. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General. ART -- Performance. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing Countries. ART -- Art & Politics. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America. DRAMA -- Continental European. Intellectual life Literature Literature and society National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature Panamanian drama Sovereignty Theater SUBJECT Panama Canal (Panama) -- In literature Canal Zone -- Intellectual life Subject Canal Zone Panama Panama -- Panama Canal Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016053263 ISBN 9780813584256 0813584256

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