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Autore: | Alexander Craft Renee <1973-> |
Titolo: | When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / / Renee Alexander Craft |
Pubblicazione: | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 305.80097287 |
Soggetto topico: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American |
Carnival - Social aspects - Panama | |
Black people - Panama - Ethnic identity | |
Black people - Panama - Rites and ceremonies | |
Congos (Panamanian people) - Ethnic identity | |
Congos (Panamanian people) - Rites and ceremonies | |
Soggetto geografico: | Portobelo (Panama) Social life and customs |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Classificazione: | LIT004100 |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | When the Devil Knocks |
ISBN: | 0-8142-7372-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910552765803321 |
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