"Colón man a come"
"Colón man a come": mythographies of Panamá Canal migration Rhonda D. Frederick
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2005.
ISBN: 0739108891
DDC: 809.9327287
LCC: PN849
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.
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.
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