On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican
Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the
fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which
has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of
borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at its core. Over thirty
fictional and non-fictional literary texts (novels, biographical
narratives, memoirs, plays, poems, and travel writing), are given
detailed attention alongside journalism, geo-political-historical
accounts of the status quo on the island, and striking visual
interventions (films, sculptures, paintings, photographs, videos
and artistic performances), many of which are sustained and
complemented by different forms of writing (newspaper cuttings,
graffiti, captions, song lyrics, screenplay, tattoos). Dominican,
Dominican-American, Haitian and Haitian-American writers and
artists are put in dialogue with authors who were born in Europe,
the rest of the Americas, Algeria, New Zealand, and Japan in order
to illuminate some of the processes and histories that have woven
and continue to weave the texture of the borderland and the complex
web of border relations on the island. Particular attention is paid
to the causes, unfolding, and immediate aftermath of the 1791 slave
revolt, the 1937 massacre of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans in the
Dominican Northern borderland as well as to recent events and
topical issues such as the 2010 earthquake, migration, and
environmental degradation. On the Edge is an invaluable
multicultural archive for those who want to engage fully with the
past and present of Hispaniola and refuse to comply with the idea
that an acceptable future is unattainable.
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