Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813584232)

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

Author: Katherine A. Zien
ISBN-10: 081358423X
ISBN-13: 9780813584232
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2017
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.11w x 0.82d