02767nam a2200433 i 4500 ebr10843146 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 131105t20142014flu ob 001 0 eng|d 9780813049861 (alk. paper) 9780813048857 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)878136731 ncpn--- PQ7520.5 .W38 2014eb 860.9/97287 23 Watson, Sonja Stephenson, author. The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / Sonja Stephenson Watson. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] �2014 1 online resource (198 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Panamanian literature History and criticism. Blacks Panama. Race awareness in literature. Panama Race relations. Electronic books. Print version: Watson, Sonja Stephenson. Politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] xii, 184 pages 9780813049861 (DLC)10843146 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10843146 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 92902 92902