Garcia Pena Lorgia Garcia Pena

Borders of Dominicanidad (eBook, PDF)

Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia Garcia-Pena explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. Garcia-Pena constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, she analyzes musical, visual, artistic, and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Garcia-Pena also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices of long-silenced Dominicans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373667
• Artikelnr.: 54684420

Autorenporträt

Lorgia García-Peña is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

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