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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 [electronic resource] : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / Sonja Stephenson Watson.
ISBN
0813048850
9780813048857
9780813049861 (alk. paper)
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2014.©2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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