Sovereign Acts : Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone /

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"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 pun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zien, Katherine A., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater.
Sovereignty.
Panamanian drama.
National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature.
Literature and society.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
DRAMA > Continental European.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
ART > Art & Politics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing Countries.
ART > Performance.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
sovereignty.
Theâtre panameen > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre > Panamá > Histoire.
Litterature et societe > Panamá.
Souverainete.
Panamanian drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Theater > Panama > History.
Literature and society > Panama.
Panama > Panama Canal.
Panama.
Canal Zone.
Zone du canal de Panamá > Vie intellectuelle.
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) > Dans la litterature.
Canal Zone > Intellectual life.
Panama Canal (Panama) > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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-scene: 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.

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