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Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction I History/Histories/Stories: Narrating the Panam Canal and Colón Men II "The Money Was Paid Small, but We Live Big": Epistolary Narratives of the Panam Canal III "Colón Man a Come": Isthmian Migrants in The Harder They Come and In the Castle of My Skin IV "With him watch chain/a knock him belly": Migration, Masculinity, and the Colón Man in Banana Bottom, "Window," and Tropic Death V Out of One, Many People: Disorderly Narrations and the Colón Man in Maryse Condé's Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean Conclusion: Panam Woman a Come Notes Cited Works and Bibliography Index About the Author
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West Indian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Alien labor in literature.
West Indians in literature.
Panama -- In literature.
Alien labor, West Indian -- Panama -- History.
West Indians -- Panama -- History.
Aliens -- Panama -- History.
Panama Railroad Co. -- History.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- History.