| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Nation of nations: Immigrant history as American history |
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Nation of nations (NYU Press)
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Dixa Ramírez places the Dominican people and Dominican expressive culture and history at the forefront of an insightful investigation of colonial modernity across the Americas and the African diaspora. In the process, she untangles the forms of free black subjectivity that developed on the island. From the nineteenth century national Dominican poet Salomé Ureña to the diasporic writings of Julia Alvarez, Chiqui Vicioso, and Junot Díaz, Ramírez considers the roles that migration, knowledge production, and international divisions of labor have played in the changing cultural expression of Dominican identity. In doing so, Colonial Phantoms demonstrates how the centrality of gender, race, and class in the nationalisms and imperialisms of the West have profoundly impacted the lives of Dominicans. Ultimately, Ramírez considers how the Dominican people negotiate being left out of Western imaginaries and the new modes of resistance they have carefully crafted in response. --Back cover |
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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, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dominican Americans.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Dominican Americans
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| SUBJECT |
Dominican Republic -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038979
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| Subject |
Dominican Republic
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Dominican republic.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479812721 |
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1479812722 |
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