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

• Tác giả: Sonja Stephenson Watson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9780813049861 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 860.997287 Literatures of Spanish and Portuguese languages
• Mô tả vật lý: xii, 184 pages ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 349217
• Chủ đề: 1. Race awareness in literatu; 2. Black people--Pana; 3. Panamanian literature--History and critici

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161--170) and index.

Tóm tắt

 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 tensi