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Mapping Hispaniola : Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature /
"Mapping Hispaniola considers how certain literary texts offer an alternative to the dominant and, at times, overexaggerated Dominican anti-Haitian ideology and endeavors to reposition Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond. From the anti-Haitian rhetoric of the intellec...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Mapping Hispaniola considers how certain literary texts offer an alternative to the dominant and, at times, overexaggerated Dominican anti-Haitian ideology and endeavors to reposition Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond. From the anti-Haitian rhetoric of the intellectual elites of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo to the writings of Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and others of the Haitian diaspora, Mapping Hispaniola examines the antipodal portrayal of the two nations of Hispaniola by focusing on representations of the Haitian-Dominican dynamic that veer from the dominant history, disrupting and challenging the 'magnification' and repetition of a Dominican anti-Haitian narrative"-- |
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| Item Description: | Extensive and substantial Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Vanderbilt University, 2016, titled Re-mapping Hispaniola : Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American literature. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813943091 |