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

by Katherine A. Zien

Book Overview

Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the CSA and the 2017 Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Book Prize

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813584108
• ISBN13: 9780813584102
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher