When the Devil Knocks

The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama

Autor: REN ALEXANDER CRAFT

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Ohio State University Press

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Despite its long history of encounters with colonialism, slavery, and neocolonialism, Panama continu...

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Autor

REN ALEXANDER CRAFT

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2016

strony

256

EAN

9780814252109

ISBN

9780814252109

Enbook ID

10916743

Wydawca

Ohio State University Press

Waga

381

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 15

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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, Renée 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. Renée Alexander Craft is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Curriculum in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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