Conceptos, imaginarios y metáforas en Panamá: entre el enclave y las metáforas nacionales panameñas

Luis Pulido Ritter

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2025.78723

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Concepts, imaginaries and metaphors in Panama: between the enclave and Panamanian national metaphors

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Luis Pulido Ritter Universidad de Panamá https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6300-8271

No. 24 (2025): April-September. Dossier: Central America in the Caribbean/The Caribbean in Central America

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2025.78723

Abstract

The enclave, as part of the cultural and academic imaginary of Panama, corresponds to the development of a concept that, starting in the 70s, is positioned by the history of the country, determined by the so-called “transitista” function that, since the colonial era, marks its history. The so-called Transit Zone, which implies the Canal Zone, involved with the construction of the Canal (1904-1914), the immigration of hundreds of thousands of Caribbean workers that promoted the construction of cultural and foundational concepts that crossed the entire field of representation. Through a comparative and hermeneutic method, literary and cultural history will be made of the formation of conceptual enclaves to finally understand how one can then go or reflect beyond the enclave.

Keywords:

enclave, transitism, long-term, Caribbean, imaginary

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Pulido Ritter, L. (2025). Concepts, imaginaries and metaphors in Panama: between the enclave and Panamanian national metaphors. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (24). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2025.78723