From Sugar to Revolution
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From Sugar to Revolution

Womenā€™s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
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From Sugar to Revolution

Womenā€™s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic

About this book

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haitiā€”a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studiesā€”the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti's exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, ZoĆ© ValdĆ©s, Loida Maritza PĆ©rez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy MorejĆ³n, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of "otherness" by assuming the role of "archaeologists of amnesia." They seek to elucidate women's variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identificationsā€”identifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations. Nations such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba are still locked in battles over self-determination, but, as Chancy demonstrates, women's gendered revisionings may open doors to less exclusionary imaginings of social and political realities for Caribbean people in general.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface: The Stories We Cannot Tell
  4. Introduction: ĀæY donde esta tu abuela?: On the Respective Racial (Mis)Identifications of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean
  5. PART I: SUGAR: Haiti
  6. PART II: SOVEREIGNTY: Cuba
  7. PART III: REVOLUTION: The Dominican Republic
  8. Conclusion: Non progredi regredi est: The Making of Transformative Visions
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Notes
  11. Works Cited
  12. Index