An edition of When the Devil knocks (2015)

When the Devil knocks

the Congo tradition and the politics of blackness in twentieth-century Panama

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When the Devil knocks
Renée Alexander Craft
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An edition of When the Devil knocks (2015)

When the Devil knocks

the Congo tradition and the politics of blackness in twentieth-century Panama

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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"--

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English
Pages
240

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-226) and index.

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Columbus
Series
Black performance and cultural criticism

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.80097287
Library of Congress
F1577.B55 A54 2015, F1577.B55A54 2015

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Pagination
240 pages
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31033250M
ISBN 13
9780814212707, 9780814293751
LCCN
2014027043
OCLC/WorldCat
893896009

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