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On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography)
Maria Cristina Fumagalli
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Description for On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography)
Hardcover. A literary study of the borderlands between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 1KJH; DSBH5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 814.
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at its core. Over thirty fictional and non-fictional literary texts (novels, biographical narratives, memoirs, plays, poems, and travel writing), are given detailed attention alongside journalism, geo-political-historical accounts of the status quo on the island, and striking visual interventions (films, sculptures, paintings, photographs, videos and artistic performances), many of which are sustained and ... Read more
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at its core. Over thirty fictional and non-fictional literary texts (novels, biographical narratives, memoirs, plays, poems, and travel writing), are given detailed attention alongside journalism, geo-political-historical accounts of the status quo on the island, and striking visual interventions (films, sculptures, paintings, photographs, videos and artistic performances), many of which are sustained and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Series
American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381601
SKU
V9781781381601
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About Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Maria Cristina Fumagalli is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. She is the author of 'Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze' (University of Virginia Press, 2009) and co-editor of 'Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio' (LUP, 2013).
Reviews for On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography)
Reviews On The Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic focuses on the border region of the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, delivering a ground-breaking literary and cultural history of magisterial scale. Bridget Wooding 'Maria Cristina Fumagalli’s remarkable On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic offers the ... Read more