Borders of Dominicanidad - Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

Informationen zum Autor Lorgia García-Peña is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University. Klappentext Lorgia García-Peña constructs the genealogy of dominicanidad, using it as a category to understand how official narratives have racialized Dominican bodies as a way to sustain the nation's borders. Examining artistic and literary representations of Dominican history, she examines how marginalized Dominicans have contested official narratives to avoid exclusion. Zusammenfassung Lorgia García-Peña constructs the genealogy of dominicanidad, using it as a category to understand how official narratives have racialized Dominican bodies as a way to sustain the nation's borders. Examining artistic and literary representations of Dominican history, she examines how marginalized Dominicans have contested official narratives to avoid exclusion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Terminology  ix Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Dominicanidad in Contradiction  2 Part I. Founding the Archive 1. The Galindo Virgins: Violence, Repetition, and the Founding of Dominicanidad  23 2. Of Bandits and Wenches: The US Occupation (1916–1924) and the Criminalization of Dominican Blackness  58 3. Speaking in Silences: Literary Interruptions and the Massacre of 1937  93 Part II. Diaspora Contradicts 4. Rayano Consciousness: Remapping the Haiti-DR Border after the Earthquake of 2010  129 5. Writing from El Nié: Exile and the Poetics of Dominicanidad Ausente  170 Postscript. Anti-Haitianism and the Global War on Blackness  203 Notes  213 Bibliography  247 Index  261

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• Authors: Lorgia Garcaia-Peana, Lorgia Garc-A-Pea, Lorgia Garcfa-pe±a, Lorgia Garcia Pena, Lorgia García Peña, Lorgia Garcia-Pena, Lorgia Garcaia-Peana Garcia-Pena
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780822362623
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6262-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Haiti, Dominikanische Republik, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Ethnic Studies