TY  - BOOK
AU  - San Miguel,Pedro L.
AU  - Ramírez,Jane
TI  - Imagined Island: History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola
SN  - 9780807876992
AV  - F1937.5 -- .S2613 2005eb 
U1  - 972.93/072/2 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Bosch, Juan, -- 1909-2001
KW  - Dominican Republic -- Historiography
KW  - Haiti -- Historiography
KW  - Intellectuals -- Dominican Republic -- Attitudes
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Public opinion -- Dominican Republic
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Kind of Sacred Writing -- The Imagined Colony: Historical Visions of Colonial Santo Domingo -- Racial Discourse and National Identity: Haiti in the Dominican Imaginary -- The Island of Forking Paths: Jean Price-Mars and the History of Hispaniola -- Storytelling the Nation: Memory, History, and Narration in Juan Bosch -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these two nations are the result of imaginary contrasts between the two nations drawn by historians, intellectuals, and writers. Covering five centuries and key intellectual figures from each country, San Miguel bridges literature, history, and ethnography to locate the origins of racial, ethnic, and national identity on the island. He finds that Haiti was often portrayed by Dominicans as "the other"--first as a utopian slave society, then as a barbaric state and enemy to the Dominican Republic. Although most of the Dominican population is mulatto and black, Dominican citizens tended to emphasize their Spanish (white) roots, essentially silencing the political voice of the Dominican majority, San Miguel argues. This pioneering work in Caribbean and Latin American historiography, originally published in Puerto Rico in 1997, is now available in English for the first time
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