The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention /

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 Rail...

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Autor Principal: Watson, Sonja Stephenson (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • National rhetoric and suppression of black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernandez
  • Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquin Beleno'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.