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Colonial Phantoms : Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present /

Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted--miscategorized or erased--the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramírez, Dixa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : at the navel of the Americas
  • Untangling Dominican patriotism : exiled men and poet muses script the gendered nation
  • Race, gender, and propriety in Dominican commemoration
  • Following the admiral : reckonings with great men's history
  • Dominican women's refracted African diasporas
  • Working women and the neoliberal gaze.