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 InfoGainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Description273 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017041397
ISBN9781683400387 (cloth : alk. paper)