Mapping Hispaniola by Megan J Myers
Considers how certain literary texts confront the dominant and, at times, exaggerated anti-Haitian Dominican ideology. Megan Jeanette Myers examines the antagonistic portrayal of the two nations, endeavouring to reposition Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond.-
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
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The Price of Slavery
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Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
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Perpetual Foreigners
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Caribbean Literature and the Environment
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Forces of Creolization
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Water Graves
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Difficult Reading
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Comrade Sister
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Break and Flow
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil
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Cultural Entanglements
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Voicing Memory
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Edwidge Danticat
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Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
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Mourning El Dorado
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Fictions of Whiteness
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil Volume 2
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Fellow Travelers
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Imperial Educacion
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Crossing the Line
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Rum Histories
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Universal Emancipation
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The Sacred Act of Reading
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The Epic of Cuba Libre
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Caribbean Romances
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The Quebec Connection
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Caribbean Jewish Crossings
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The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
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French and West Indian
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Market Aesthetics
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Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
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Guarding Cultural Memory
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Creole Recitations
Mapping Hispaniola is a monumental work that thoroughly and astutely explores the intersections and connections between the countries of Hispaniola in the literature created by its writers, whether based on the island or in the DiasporaBinary us/them representations are debunked and instead we are connected to the third spaces in literature that show the nuances and connections behind the divisions, polemics and ideologies. Cogently argued and written, with clarity and elegance, this will become one of the seminal texts in the study of the literature not just of Hispaniola and the Caribbean, but of communities and countries that share border spaces and places. Megan Myers does with critical theory what the writers she studies have done with their fiction, poetry, plays, stories and memoirs: create more light.
In Mapping Hispaniola, Megan Jeanette Myers tackles an extremely rich and complex topic, that of representations of the Dominican border. She does so largely be examining the twentieth century writings of Dominican novelists and poets, and placing them within the context of historical representations and struggles over the border itself. The corpus is interesting, comprising a mix of relatively well-studied texts and others that have received less attention. Myers successfully coheres the analysis of these texts around a vision of the border region that draws from various theorizations, including that of Anzaldua, seeing the border itself as a space of layered complexity and contradiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813943077 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813943078 |
| Title | Mapping Hispaniola |
| Author | Megan J Myers |
| Series | New World Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
| Year published | 2019-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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