The Borders of Dominicanidad

Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

Lorgia García Peña (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6247-0 (ISBN)

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In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia GarcÍa-PeÑa explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. GarcÍa-PeÑa constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, she analyzes musical, visual, artistic, and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. GarcÍa-PeÑa also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices of long-silenced Dominicans.

Lorgia GarcÍa-PeÑa is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University.

Note on Terminology ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. Dominicanidad in Contradiction 2

Part I. Founding the Archive

1. The Galindo Virgins: Violence, Repetition, and the Founding of Dominicanidad 23

2. Of Bandits and Wenches: The US Occupation (1916–1924) and the Criminalization of Dominican Blackness 58

3. Speaking in Silences: Literary Interruptions and the Massacre of 1937 93

Part II. Diaspora Contradicts

4. Rayano Consciousness: Remapping the Haiti-DR Border after the Earthquake of 2010 129

5. Writing from El NiÉ: Exile and the Poetics of Dominicanidad Ausente 170

Postscript. Anti-Haitianism and the Global War on Blackness 203

Notes 213

Bibliography 247

Index 261

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	18 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6247-3 / 0822362473
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6247-0 / 9780822362470
Zustand	Neuware