Transnational Hispaniola new directions in Haitian and Dominican studies / edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram.
| Other author | Mayes, April J. |
| Other author | Jayaram, Kiran. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018] |
| Description | 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | This is an edited volume that seeks to elaborate new methodologies and forge new questions in research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017041397 |
| ISBN | 9781683400387 (cloth : alk. paper) |