Introduction: Centering Haiti in Hispanic Caribbean studies / Vanessa K. Valdés -- The border of Hispaniola in the historical and fictional imaginations since 1791 : redemption and betrayals / Claudy Delné -- "The road of social progress" : revolutions and resistance in the 1936 lectures of Dantès Bellegarde / Vanessa K. Valdés -- The dictator's scapegoat : Emilio Rodrı́guez Demorizi's Las invasiones Haitianas de 1801, 1805 y 1822 / Carrie Gibson -- Mucho woulo : black freedom and the kingdom of this world / Natalie Marie Léger -- The Haitian Revolution and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's La última cena (The last supper,1976) / Philip Kaisary -- Lamentos haitianos : Jacques Roumain, Haiti, and the familiar in Jesús Cos Causse's poetry / Erika Serrato -- "But the captain is Haitian" : issues of recognition within Ana Lydia Vega's Encancaranublado / Mariana Past -- Haitian and Dominican resistance : a study of the symptom in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones / Ángela Castro -- "The black plague from the West" : Haiti in Roberto Marcallé Abreu's Dystopia / Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martı́nez -- "And then the canes shrieked" : Haitianismo and memory in Junot Dı́az's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Mohwanah Fetus -- Yankee, Out! Hugo Chávez and the fight to end U.S. hegemony in Haiti / Ayanna Legros -- Haiti and the Dominican Republic : teaching about the un/friendly neighbors of Hispaniola / Cécile Accilien -- Concluding thoughts: Afro-Latinx futures / Vanessa K. Valdés.
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"The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico"-- Provided by publisher
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