Transnational Hispaniola : new directions in Haitian and Dominican studies /

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Imprint:Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Description:273 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11673940
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Other authors / contributors:Mayes, April J., editor.
Jayaram, Kiran, editor.
ISBN:9781683400387
1683400380
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This is an edited volume that seeks to elaborate new methodologies and forge new questions in research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / April J. Mayes
  • The historical limits of the state in Hispaniola
  • Shifting territories: the production of space in eighteenth-century Hispaniola / Nathalie Bragadir
  • The contested state: political discourse during the independence of the Dominican Republic, 1844 / Fidel J. Tavárez
  • To cap-Haítien, with my family: Dominican passport petitions, 1862-3 / Anne Eller
  • Cross-words: representations Hispaniola
  • "A border between geographies of grief": river crossings and crossroads between Haiti and the Dominican Republic,? / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
  • "The tam-tam of drums from the west": shifting representations of Haiti in the later work of Aída Cartagena Portalatín / Elizabeth C. Russ
  • Archives of Afro-affirmation: post-Trujillo journals and Dominican literary blackness / Raj Chetty
  • Transnational romances and sex tourism Chochuca's strategy by Rita Indiana Hernández, "emoticons" by Aurora Arias, and "heading south" by Dany LaFerrire / Elena Valdez
  • The state, the market, bodies, and commodities of Hispaniola
  • Developing an economy of sex: interse(x)ing histories of tourism, beach boys, and masculinity in Hispaniola / Elizabeth Manley
  • Seams, seeds, et cetera: why sustainability in Haiti is wrong / Kiran C. Jayaram
  • Ties that bind: la sentencia in contemporary Hispaniola / April J. Mayes
  • Transnational cultural production
  • Interview with Paul Austerlitz: engaged scholarship and engaged creativity in the Dominican Republic and Haiti / Paul Austerlitz and April J. Mayes
  • Translating Hispaniola to the digital realm: on teaching alternative histories of the Americas / Kaiama L. Glover and Maja Horn
  • Epilogue / April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram.