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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Critical Caribbean studies
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Critical Caribbean studies.
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| Summary |
"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 punctuated the Canal Zone's existence, from its inception in 1903 to its dissolution in 1999, and into the post-occupation present. White US citizens, West Indian labor migrants, and Panamanian artists and activists employed performances - ranging from popular entertainments and patriotic pageants to opera concerts and national theatre - to assert and challenge the Canal Zone's sovereignty, claiming their places in the Zone's physical terrain and representational imaginary. These performances were at once located within the Canal Zone and embedded in transnational flows of US empire, neoliberal capitalism, black internationalism, anticolonial movements, and regional migration. By demonstrating the place of performance in US empire's legal landscape, Sovereign Acts aims to transform our understanding of US imperialism and its aftermath in Panama and what Frank Guridy calls the "US-Caribbean world.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| 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-scène: 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. |
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Coda: After SovereigntyAcknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sovereignty.
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Sovereignty. |
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National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature.
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National characteristics, Panamanian, in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Panama.
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Literature and society. |
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Panama. |
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Theater -- Panama -- History.
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Theater. |
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History. |
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Panamanian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Panamanian drama. |
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20th century |
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Panama Canal (Panama) -- In literature.
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Canal Zone -- Intellectual life.
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Canal Zone. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813584232 081358423X (DLC) 2016053263 (OCoLC)978543452 |
| ISBN |
9780813584256 (electronic book) |
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0813584256 (electronic book) |
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9780813584232 |
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081358423X |
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9780813584102 |
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0813584108 |
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