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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Main Author: Sunny Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2135q8gx