{"product_id":"sovereign-acts-katherine-a-zien-9780813584232","title":"Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2017 Annual Book Prize from the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)​\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSovereign Acts\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine A. Zien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081358423X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813584232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.07h x 6.11w x 0.82d","brand":"Katherine A. Zien","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48443708276991,"sku":"9780813584232","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c400086-95cd-4ede-b080-86bab729412f.jpg?v=1777207290","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sovereign-acts-katherine-a-zien-9780813584232","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}