List of Figures
Transnational Hispaniola: An Introduction
April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram
Part 1. The Historical Limits of the State in Hispaniola
Chapter 1. Shifting Territories: The Production of Space on Eighteenth-Century Hispaniola
Nathalie Bragadir
Chapter 2. The Contested State: Political Discourse during the Independence of the Dominican Republic, 1844
Fidel J. Tavárez
Chapter 3. To Cap-Haïtien, with My Family: Dominican Passport Petitions, 1862–1863
Anne Eller
Part 2. Representations of Hispaniola
Chapter 4. “A Border between Geographies of Grief “: River Crossings and Crossroads between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Chapter 5. “The Tam-Tam of Drums from the West”: Shifting Representations of Haiti in the Later Work of Aída Cartagena Portalatín
Elizabeth C. Russ
Chapter 6. Archives of Afro-Affirmation: Post-Trujillo Journals and Dominican Literary Blackness
Raj Chetty
Chapter 7. Transnational Romances and Sex Tourism in Chochueca’s Strategy, by Rita Indiana Hernández; “Emoticons,” by Aurora Arias; and “Heading South,” by Dany Laferrière
Elena Valdez
Part 3. The State, the Market, Bodies, and Commodities of Hispaniola
Chapter 8. Developing an Economy of Sex: Intersecting Histories of Tourism, Beach Boys, and Masculinity in Hispaniola
Elizabeth S. Manley
Chapter 9. Global Capital Disguised as Sustainability in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Kiran C. Jayaram
Chapter 10. Ties That Bind: La Sentencia and Citizenship in Contemporary Hispaniola
April J. Mayes
Part 4. Transnational Cultural Production
Chapter 11. Interview with Paul Austerlitz: Engaged Scholarship and Engaged Creativity in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Paul Austerlitz and April J. Mayes
Chapter 12. Translating Hispaniola to the Digital Realm: On Teaching Alternative Histories of the Americas
Kaiama L. Glover and Maja Horn
Epilogue
April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram
Appendix: Course Syllabi
List of Contributors
Index
