Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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