The politics of race in Panama : : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / / Sonja Stephenson Watson.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Gainesville : : University Press of Florida,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 pages) |
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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.