Description: This is an edited volume that seeks to elaborate new methodologies and forge new questions in research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Brief description: Kiran C. Jayaram, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, is coeditor of Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements.
Review Quotes: "Represents
a milestone in a new wave of scholarship on Haiti and the Dominican Republic
and a model for the future of collaborative research in defiance of
disciplinary borders. . . . Far more than simply imagining more emancipatory
futures, this book provides a piece of the map towards realizing them."--Bulletin
of Latin American Research
analysis of Hispaniola from an interdisciplinary perspective. ... These diversely
trained authors cooperate in creating an integrated body of knowledge pertinent
to understanding Hispaniola through new narratives that challenge stale
approaches tainted by nationalist points of view. . . . A necessary book."--Hispanic
American Historical Review "By providing an insightful introduction to
new, more complex narratives of Haitian-Dominican relations being developed
across the humanities and social research disciplines, Transnational Hispaniola enriches a new generation's rejection of
old tropes of fatal conflict."--New West Indian Guide "Offer[s] a true diversity of
material seldom seen in an edited volume."--The Americas