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"Colón man a come" : mythographies of Panamá Canal migration

Title: "Colón man a come" : mythographies of Panamá Canal migration / Rhonda D. Frederick.
Author: Frederick, Rhonda D., 1965-
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2005.

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Description

xxvi, 237 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Caribbean studies

Uniform Title

Caribbean studies (Lanham, Md.)

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

Contents

History/histories/stories : narrating the Panamá Canal and Colón men -- "The money was paid small, but we live big" : epistolary narratives of the Panamá Canal -- "Colón man a come" : isthmian migrants in The harder they come and In the castle of my skin -- "With him watch chain/a knock him belly" : migration, masculinity, and the Colón man in Banana bottom, "Window," and Tropic death -- Out of one, many people : disorderly narrations and the Colón man in Maryse Condé's Tree of life : a novel of the Caribbean -- Conclusion : Panamá woman a come.

Call Number

Sc E 05-266

ISBN

0739108891 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739108913 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004018804

OCLC

56319817

Author

Frederick, Rhonda D., 1965-

Title

"Colón man a come" : mythographies of Panamá Canal migration / Rhonda D. Frederick.

Imprint

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2005.

Series

Caribbean studies

Caribbean studies (Lanham, Md.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

Local Note

Library has author's autographed copy.

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Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 05-266

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