Fictions and Frictions of the "Panama Roughneck": Literary Depictions of White, US Labor in the Canal Zone
<p>This essay expands the critical conversation on race, labor, and literature in the Panama Canal Zone by foregrounding the portrayal of white, U.S. workers in two popular texts, Harry A. Franck’s <em>Zone Policeman </em>(1913) and John Hall’s <em>Panama Roughneck Ballads<...
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| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2135q8gx |