The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Watson Sonja Stephenson ;
- Editeurs : Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa [etc.] University press of Florida ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2014
- ISBN : 978-0-8130-4986-1, 978-0-8130-5401-8
- Sujets : Littérature panaméenne -- Histoire et critique, Noirs, Conscience de race, Panama -- Relations interethniques, Panama
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 184 p.), : Couv. ill. en coul., 23 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
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Résumé
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