{"product_id":"sovereign-acts-performing-race-space-and-belonging-in-panama-and-the-canal-zone-critical-caribbean-studies-9780813584232","title":"Sovereign Acts Performing Race Space and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSovereign Acts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By pairing archival research with the analysis of a fascinating array of theatrical and political performances, built environment, and civic recreation, Zien innovatively posits the construction of citizenship and belonging in Panama’s Canal Zone throughout the 20th century as an intricate, performative process. A must-read for anyone interested in sites of contested sovereignty.\" -- Camilla Stevens * author of Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama *\u003cbr\u003e\"Examines the 'performance' of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999.\" * Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables\u003cbr\u003e Note on Text\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e 1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire\u003cbr\u003e 2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone\u003cbr\u003e 3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert\u003cbr\u003e 4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging \u003ci\u003eel pueblo panameño\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover\u003cbr\u003e Coda: After Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038422204759,"sku":"9780813584232","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813584232.jpg?v=1750940277","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sovereign-acts-performing-race-space-and-belonging-in-panama-and-the-canal-zone-critical-caribbean-studies-9780813584232","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}