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The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention
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The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / Sonja Stephenson Watson.
ISBN
9780813049861 (alk. paper)
0813049865 (alk. paper)
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014.
Physical Description
xii, 184 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Black Panamanians, unlike other Aftro-Latin communities, have traditionally separated themselves based on ancestral heritage: on one hand are those whose ancestors were slaves during the colonial period; on the other are those whose families arrived from the West Indies to help build the Panama Railroad and Canal. In this book, Watson assesses how Panamanian literature represents this historical and continuing tension.
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Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Race, language and national identity in Afro-Panamanian literary discourse
National rhetoric and suppression of Black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernández
Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquín Beleño's Canal Zone trilogy
Revising the canon : historical revisionism in Cubena's trilogy
West Indian/Caribbean consciousness in works by Melva Lowe de Goodin, Gerardo Maloney, Carlos Wilson, and Carlos E. Russell
Beyond Blackness? : new generation Afro-Panamanian writers Melanie Taylor and Carlos Oriel Wynter Melo
Conclusion: Forging Afro-Panamanian identity?.
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