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050 00 $aF1577.B55$bA54 2015
082 00 $a305.80097287$223
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100 1 $aAlexander Craft, Renée,$d1973-
245 10 $aWhen the Devil knocks :$bthe Congo tradition and the politics of blackness in twentieth-century Panama /$cRenée Alexander Craft.
264 1 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$c2015.
300 $a240 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aBlack performance and cultural criticism
505 0 $aPlaying (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".
520 $a"Despite its long history of encounters with colonialism, slavery, and neocolonialism, Panama continues to be an under-researched site of African Diaspora identity, culture, and performance. To address this void, Renée Alexander Craft examines an Afro-Latin Carnival performance tradition called "Congo" as it is enacted in the town of Portobelo, Panama-the nexus of trade in the Spanish colonial world. In When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama, Alexander Craft draws on over a decade of critical ethnographic research to argue that Congo traditions tell the story of cimarronaje, charting self-liberated Africans' triumph over enslavement, their parody of the Spanish Crown and Catholic Church, their central values of communalism and self-determination, and their hard-won victories toward national inclusion and belonging. When the Devil Knocks analyzes the Congo tradition as a dynamic cultural, ritual, and identity performance that tells an important story about a Black cultural past while continuing to create itself in a Black cultural present. This book examines "Congo" within the history of twentieth century Panamanian etnia negra culture, politics, and representation, including its circulation within the political economy of contemporary tourism"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 212-226) and index.
650 0 $aCongos (Panamanian people)$xRites and ceremonies.
650 0 $aCongos (Panamanian people)$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aBlacks$zPanama$xRites and ceremonies.
650 0 $aBlacks$zPanama$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aCarnival$xSocial aspects$zPanama.
651 0 $aPortobelo (Panama)$xSocial life and customs.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aBlack performance and cultural criticism.
852 00 $bleh$hF1577.B55$iA54 2015