When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / / Renee Alexander Craft

• Autore: Alexander Craft Renee <1973->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II