“Finding the Silver Voice: Afro-Antilleans in the Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida” Auteur(s) : 13th International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL)—Panama in the Caribbean: The Caribbean in Panama. University of Panama, Panama City, November 13-16, 2013. ( Conference ) Vargas-Betancourt, Margarita ( Author, Primary ) Résumé : (Acquisition) Collected for University of Florida's Institutional Repository by the UFIR Self-Submittal tool. Submitted by Margarita Vargas-Betancourt. This paper was part of the panel Panama Silver and the Making of Modern Literature, which introduced a collaborative, digital humanities course entitled “Panama Silver, Asian Gold: Migration, Money, and the Making of Modern Caribbean Literature,” and illuminated the significance of West Indians in Panama for the formation of Caribbean literature. The panelists designed and taught the course at Amherst College, the University of Florida, and the University of Miami. In the first paper in this panel, Rhonda Cobham-Sander articulated the overarching goal of the course; namely, that these two, closely related migrations were critical to the development of the Caribbean middle class, political nationalism, and national literatures. In the second paper, Leah Rosenberg outlined primary historical and literary sources on West Indians in Panama now available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com) and discussed how this supports collaboration in teaching and research. In the third paper, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt discussed the challenges of finding archival materials concerning West Indians in Panama in, U.S.-oriented archives (which we are using in the course). In the final paper, Donette Francis demonstrated the implications of positioning Panama Silver, the capital accumulated by West Indians, as critical to shaping modern Caribbean literature by reexamining Salkey’s understudied 1971 novel, The Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover. Droits : All rights reserved by the submitter. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00003593/00001 | Partager |
West Indian women in the Panama Canal zone, 1904-1914 Auteur(s) : Flores Villalobos, Joan Victoria Éditeur(s) : Amherst College Amherst College ( Amherst, MA ) Résumé : Thesis used in the "Panama Silver, Asian Gold: Migration, Money, and the Making of the Modern Caribbean" course taught at three institutions starting in Fall 2013, with syllabus: http://www.dloc.com/AA00013935/ (Statement of Responsibility) Joan Victoria Flores Villalobos. "Submitted to the Department of Black Studies of Amherst College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with honors." Faculty Advisers: Margaret Hunt, History Department Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Black Studies Department Droits : Permissions granted by the author. Applicable rights reserved. 656275374 http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00019230/00001 | Partager |
In Jamaica and Cuba Auteur(s) : De Lisser, Herbert George, 1878-1944 Éditeur(s) : Gleaner Co. Gleaner Co. ( Kingston, Jamaica ) Résumé : "Most of the following chapters first appeared in the Daily gleaner."- Pref. A visit to Panama: p. 153-162. (Biographical) From Wikipedia for H. G. de Lisser, from 29 June 2013: Herbert George de Lisser CMG (9 December 1878 - 19 May 1944) was a Jamaican journalist and author. He has been called "one of the most conspicuous figures in the history of West Indian literature". De Lisser was born in Falmouth, Jamaica, and attended William Morrison's Collegiate School in Kingston. He started work at the Institute of Jamaica at the age of 14. Three years later he joined the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, of which his father was editor, as a proofreader, and two years later became a reporter on the Jamaica Times. In 1903, De Lisser became assistant editor of the Gleaner and was editor within the year. He wrote several articles for the paper every day. He also produced a novel or non-fiction book every year, beginning in 1913 with Jane: A Story of Jamaica, significant for being the first West Indian novel to have a central black character. Another famous novel of his, The White Witch of Rosehall (1929), is linked to a legend of a haunting in Jamaica. De Lisser also wrote several plays. In December 1920 he began publishing an annual magazine, Planters' Punch. De Lisser devoted much time and effort to the revival of the Jamaican sugar industry and represented Jamaica at a number of sugar conferences around the world. He was also general secretary of the Jamaica Imperial Association, honorary president of the Jamaica Press Association, and chairman of the West Indian section of the Empire Press Union. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours. (Statement of Responsibility) by H. G. De Lisser. Jamaica Cuba Panama 001665789 24569573 AHX7577 11027504 //r http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00080939/00001 | Partager |