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1 online resource (pages cm.) |
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text file |
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Black performance and cultural criticism
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Black performance and cultural criticism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Despite its long history of encounters with colonialism, slavery, and neocolonialism, Panama continues to be an under-researched site of African Diaspora identity, culture, and performance. To address this void, Renee Alexander Craft examines an Afro-Latin Carnival performance tradition called "Congo" as it is enacted in the town of Portobelo, Panama-the nexus of trade in the Spanish colonial world. In When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama, Alexander Craft draws on over a decade of critical ethnographic research to argue that Congo traditions tell the story of cimarronaje, charting self-liberated Africans' triumph over enslavement, their parody of the Spanish Crown and Catholic Church, their central values of communalism and self-determination, and their hard-won victories toward national inclusion and belonging. When the Devil Knocks analyzes the Congo tradition as a dynamic cultural, ritual, and identity performance that tells an important story about a Black cultural past while continuing to create itself in a Black cultural present. This book examines "Congo" within the history of twentieth century Panamanian etnia negra culture, politics, and representation, including its circulation within the political economy of contemporary tourism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. |
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Carnival -- Social aspects -- Panama.
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Carnival -- Social aspects. |
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Panama. |
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Carnival. |
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Black people -- Panama -- Ethnic identity.
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Black people. |
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Ethnicity. |
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Black people -- Panama -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Congos (Panamanian people) -- Ethnic identity.
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Congos (Panamanian people) |
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Congos (Panamanian people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Portobelo (Panama) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780814273722 |
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0814273726 |
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9780814212707 hardback |
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9780814293751 cd |
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0814212700 |
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