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Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies

April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram

Abstract

The contributors to Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies elaborate new methodologies and forge new questions in research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They use history, anthropology, literature, and interdisciplinary studies to move toward new directions in studies of Hispaniola.

Keywords: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Hispaniola, Interdisciplinary studies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2018 Print ISBN-13: 9781683400387
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: January 2019 DOI:10.5744/florida/9781683400387.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

April J. Mayes, editor
University of South Florida

Kiran C. Jayaram, editor
Pomona College

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Figures

Transnational Hispaniola

April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram

1 The Historical Limits of the State in Hispaniola

1 Shifting Territories

Nathalie Bragadir

2 The Contested State

Fidel J. Tavárez

3 To Cap-Haïtien, with My Family

Anne Eller

2 Representations of Hispaniola

4 “A Border between Geographies of Grief”

RéGine Michelle Jean-Charles

5 “The Tam-Tam of Drums from the West”

Elizabeth C. Russ

6 Archives of Afro-Affirmation

Raj Chetty

7 Transnational Romances and Sex Tourism in Chochueca’s Strategy, by Rita Indiana Hernández; “Emoticons,” by Aurora Arias; and “Heading South,” by Dany Laferrière

Elena Valdez

3 The State, the Market, Bodies, and Commodities of Hispaniola

8 Developing an Economy of Sex

Elizabeth S. Manley

9 Global Capital Disguised as Sustainability in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Kiran C. Jayaram

10 Ties That Bind

April J. Mayes

4 Transnational Cultural Production

11 Interview with Paul Austerlitz

Paul Austerlitz and April J. Mayes

12 Translating Hispaniola to the Digital Realm

Kaiama L. Glover and Maja Horn

Epilogue

April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram

End Matter

Appendix Course Syllabi

Contributors

Index