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Watson, Sonja Stephenson.

The politics of race in Panama Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / [electronic resource] : Sonja Stephenson Watson. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National rhetoric and suppression of black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernández -- Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquín Beleño'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.

ISBN: 9780813048857 0813048850

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race awareness in literature.
Blacks--Panama.
Panamanian literature--History and criticism.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Panama--Race relations.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PQ7520.5 / .W38 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 860.9/97287