Racialized visions : Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean / edited by Vanessa K. Valdes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valdés, Vanessa Kimberly, editor.

Series:

SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (Spanish)--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (Spanish).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Centering Haiti in Hispanic Caribbean studies / Vanessa K. Valdés

The border of Hispaniola in the historical and fictional imaginations since 1791 : redemption and betrayals / Claudy Delné

"The road of social progress" : revolutions and resistance in the 1936 lectures of Dantès Bellegarde / Vanessa K. Valdés

The dictator's scapegoat : Emilio Rodrı́guez Demorizi's Las invasiones Haitianas de 1801, 1805 y 1822 / Carrie Gibson

Mucho woulo : black freedom and the kingdom of this world / Natalie Marie Léger

The Haitian Revolution and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's La última cena (The last supper,1976) / Philip Kaisary

Lamentos haitianos : Jacques Roumain, Haiti, and the familiar in Jesús Cos Causse's poetry / Erika Serrato

"But the captain is Haitian" : issues of recognition within Ana Lydia Vega's Encancaranublado / Mariana Past

Haitian and Dominican resistance : a study of the symptom in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones / Ángela Castro

"The black plague from the West" : Haiti in Roberto Marcallé Abreu's Dystopia / Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martı́nez

"And then the canes shrieked" : Haitianismo and memory in Junot Dı́az's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Mohwanah Fetus

Yankee, Out! Hugo Chávez and the fight to end U.S. hegemony in Haiti / Ayanna Legros

Haiti and the Dominican Republic : teaching about the un/friendly neighbors of Hispaniola / Cécile Accilien

Concluding thoughts: Afro-Latinx futures / Vanessa K. Valdés.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438481050

1438481055