On the edge : writing the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic /
A literary study of the borderlands between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2015
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| Series: | American tropics ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; A note on translations; 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 unbearableThe forgotten heart-breaking epic of border struggle; Some are 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 structure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
