On the edge : writing the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic / Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at i...
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| Other title: | Writing the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | American tropics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On the edge: border-crossing, borderland-dwelling, and the music of what happens
- Landscaping Hispaniola: Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry and border politics
- The 1791 revolt and the borderland from below
- This place was here before our nations: Anacaona's Jaragua
- Servants turned masters: Santo Domingo and the black revolt
- A fragile and beautiful world: the northern borderland and the 1937 massacre
- The dream of creating one people from two lands mixed together: 1937 and borderland Utopia
- A geography of living flesh: bearing the unbearable
- The forgotten heart-breaking epic of border struggle
- Some ae born to endless night: structural violence across-the-border
- Borderlands of the mind: present, past, and future
- The writing is on the wall: towards an open island and a complete structue
- Conclusion: The rejection of futures past: on the edge of and attainable accepatable future?