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

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

Alexander Craft, Renée

Paperback

Series: Black Performance and Cultural Criticism

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814252109
ISBN13: 9780814252109
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Mar 18 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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