{"product_id":"mapping-hispaniola-megan-jeanette-myers-9780813943084","title":"Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eBecause of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while Haiti, occupying the western side of their shared island of Hispaniola, has become one of the poorest countries in the Americas. While some scholars have pointed to such disparities as definitive of the island's literature, Megan Jeanette Myers challenges this reduction by considering how certain literary texts confront the dominant and, at times, exaggerated anti-Haitian Dominican ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyers examines the antagonistic portrayal of the two nations--from the anti-Haitian rhetoric of the intellectual elites of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo's rule to the writings of Julia Alvarez, Junot D az, and others of the Haitian diaspora--endeavoring to reposition Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond. Focusing on representations of the Haitian-Dominican dynamic that veer from the dominant history, \u003ci\u003eMapping Hispaniola\u003c\/i\u003e disrupts the \"magnification\" and repetition of a Dominican anti-Haitian narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Jeanette Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813943086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813943084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020","brand":"Megan Jeanette Myers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926420848895,"sku":"9780813943084","price":29.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8221cefc-0638-422f-8730-f84fc8641cf7.jpg?v=1681082992","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mapping-hispaniola-megan-jeanette-myers-9780813943084","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}