History/histories/stories: narrating the Panamá Canal and Colón men -- "The money was paid small, but we live big" : epistolary narratives of the Panamá Canal -- "Colón man a come" : isthmian migrants in The harder they come and In the castle of my skin -- "With him watch chain/a knock him belly" : migration, masculinity, and the Colón man in Banana bottom, "Window," and Tropic death -- Out of one, many people : disorderly narrations and the Colón man in Maryse Condé's Tree of life : a novel of the Caribbean -- Conclusion : Panamá woman a come.