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Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint

Nation, State, and Race on Hispaniola

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  • © 2003

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  1. Eugenio Matibag
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Point Counterpoint

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 1-26

  3. Limits of Colonialism, 1492–1750

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 27-50

  4. The Great Opening, 1751–1801

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 51-79

  5. Haiti and Santo Domingo, 1802–44

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 81-109

  6. Territorial Imperatives, 1845–1929

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 111-137

  7. Transnational Dictatorships, 1930–85

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 139-162

  8. Close Encounters: Haitians in Dominican Literature

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 163-186

  9. Searching Out the Boundary, 1986–2003

    • Eugenio Matibag
    Pages 187-215

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-269
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What would the island of Hispaniola look like if viewed as a loosely connected system? That is the question Haitian-Dominican Counterpointseeks to answer as it surveys the insular space shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic throughout their parallel histories. For beneath the familiar tale of hostilities, the systemic perspective reveals a lesser-known, "unitarian" narrative of interdependencies and reciprocal influences shaping each country'sidentity. In view of the sociocultural and economic linkages connecting the two countries, their relations would have to resemble not so much acockfight (the conventional metaphor) as a serial and polyrhythmic counterpoint.

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"Matibag has spotted with renewed imagination an intense instance of border contact far larger in regional implications than the geographical space occupied by the fringe that binds and unbinds the related histories of Haiti and Republica Dominicana...recommended reading for any informed and discerning person interested in the region as a serious tourist or for business or academic purposes." - Eduardo Gonzalez, Johns Hopkins University

"...this book starts us thinking about the unthinkable. [Matibag] carries forward the discerning analysis of Dominican-Haitian relations begun in 1971." - James Morrell, Council for International Policy

About the author

Eugenio Matibag is associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State Univesity. He is the author of Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative.

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