The Galindo virgins : violence, repetition, and the founding of Dominicanidad -- Of bandits and wenches : the US occupation (1916-1924) and the criminalization of Dominican Blackness -- Speaking in silences : literary interruptions and the massacre of 1937 -- Rayano consciousness : remapping the Haiti-DR border after the earthquake of 2010 -- Writing from El Nié : exile and the poetics of Dominicanidad Ausente -- Postscript: Anti-Haitianism and the global war on Blackness
Summary
Lorgia García-Peña constructs the genealogy of dominicanidad, using it as a category to understand how official narratives have racialized Dominican bodies as a way to sustain the nation's borders. Examining artistic and literary representations of Dominican history, she examines how marginalized Dominicans have contested official narratives to avoid exclusion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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