ISBN-10: 1479850454
ISBN-13: 9781479850457
ISBN-10: 147986756X
ISBN-13: 9781479867561
Using a mix of ancient and literary research, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted—miscategorized or erased—the Dominican Republic because the 19th century regardless of its critical position within the structure of the Americas. via quite a few Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical functionality, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance.
Dixa Ramírez locations the Dominican humans and Dominican expressive tradition and background on the vanguard of an insightful research of colonial modernity around the Americas and the African diaspora. within the approach, she untangles the types of unfastened black subjectivity that built at the island. From the 19th century nationwide Dominican poet Salomé Ureña to the diasporic writings of Julia Alvarez, Chiqui Vicioso, and Junot Díaz, Ramírez considers the jobs that migration, wisdom construction, and overseas divisions of work have performed within the altering cultural expression of Dominican id. In doing so, Colonial Phantoms demonstrates how the centrality of gender, race, and sophistication within the nationalisms and imperialisms of the West have profoundly impacted the lives of Dominicans. finally, Ramírez considers how the Dominican humans negotiate being disregarded of Western imaginaries and the hot modes of resistance they've got conscientiously crafted in response.
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Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (Nation of Nations)
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