... The introduction provides an overview of the arguments and of the various theoretical terms the author creates (contra diction , rayano consciousness, dominicanidad) to guide the reader through the basic questions the book answers. The introduction also establishes that the contrapuntal analysis...

... This chapter examines the discursive process through which the literary elite facilitated the erasure of Dominican blackness from the Archive of Dominicanidad. Through a reading of multiple literary representations of the Galindo Virgins (1860–1940), which contradict historical documents...

... This chapter analyzes performances by Dominican American artist and writer Josefina Báez in dialogue with twentieth-century Dominican narratives of exile by Juan Bosch and Pedro Vergés. Exploring the various ways in which a poetics of dominicanidad ausente has emerged as a dialectic process...

... 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...

..., 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...

...Founding the Archive This chapter examines the discursive process through which the literary elite facilitated the erasure of Dominican blackness from the Archive of Dominicanidad. Through a reading of multiple literary representations of the Galindo Virgins (1860–1940), which contradict...