When the Devil knocks : the Congo tradition and the politics of blackness in twentieth-century Panama /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alexander Craft, Renée, 1973-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Series:	Black performance and cultural criticism.
Subjects:	Congos (Panamanian people) > Rites and ceremonies. Congos (Panamanian people) > Ethnic identity. Blacks > Panama > Rites and ceremonies. Blacks > Panama > Ethnic identity. Carnival > Social aspects > Panama. Portobelo (Panama) > Social life and customs. LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.

Table of Contents:

Playing (with the) Devil
Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
"Una raza, dos etnias" : the politics of be(com)ing "Afropanameño"
Christ, the Devil, and the terrain of blackness
Baptizing the Devil : circum-local transmission and translation of culture
"¡Los gringos vienen!" : "The gringos are coming! : race, gender, and tourism
Dancing with the Devil at the crossroads : performance ethnography and staging thresholds of difference
Dialogical performance, critical ethnography, and the "digital present".