Sovereign Acts : : Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone / / Katherine A. Zien.
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, whit...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 27 photographs, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Note on Text
- List of Abbreviations
- SOVEREIGN ACTS
- 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