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Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint
Eugenio Matibag
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Description for Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349387724
SKU
V9781349387724
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99-15
About Eugenio Matibag
Eugenio Matibag is associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State Univesity. He is the author of Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative.
Reviews for Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint
"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 ... Read more