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The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7366-7
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Rayano Consciousness: Remapping the Haiti-DR Border after the Earthquake of 2010
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Published:October 2016
Through the concept of “rayano consciousness,” the chapter theorizes the Haitian-Dominican border within the framework of border studies. Encompassing the multiplicity of borders—transnational, interethnic and multilinguistic—that characterize the Dominican experience on and beyond the island, rayano consciousness engages the historical and present awareness of Dominican borders—symbolic, political, and geographical—a process that includes marginalized subjectivities in the imagining and narrations of dominicanidad. The chapter analyzes a series of contemporary performances by David Pérez and Rita Indiana Hernández as well as poems by rayano writer Manuel Rueda.
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