List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Myriam J. A. Chancy
Introduction: Centering Haiti in Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Vanessa K. Valde¿s
1. The Border of Hispaniola in Historical and Fictional Imaginations since 1791: Redemption and Betrayals
Claudy Delné
2. "The Road of Social Progress": Revolutions and Resistance in the 1936 Lectures of Dante`s Bellegarde
Vanessa K. Valde¿s
3. The Dictator's Scapegoat: Emilio Rodri¿guez Demorizi's Invasiones haitianas de 1801, 1805 y 1822
Carrie Gibson
4. Mucho Woulo: Black Freedom and The Kingdom of This World
Natalie Marie Le¿ger
5. The Haitian Revolution and Tomäs Gutie¿rrez Alea's La u¿ltima cena (The Last Supper, 1976)
Philip Kaisary
6. Haiti: Jesu¿s Cos Causse's Prelude to the Caribbean
Erika V. Serrato
7. "But the Captain Is Haitian": Issues of Recognition within Ana Lydia Vega's "Encancaranublado"
Mariana Past
8. Haitian and Dominican Resistance: A Study of the Symptom in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
A¿ngela Castro
9. "The Black Plague from the West": Haiti in Roberto Marcalle¿ Abreu's Dystopia
Ramo¿n Antonio Victoriano-Marti¿nez
10. "And Then the Canes Shrieked": Haitianism and Memory in Junot Di¿az's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Mohwanah Fetus
11. Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Teaching about the Un/Friendly Neighbors of Hispaniola
Ce¿cile Accilien
Concluding Thoughts: Afro-Latinx Futures
Vanessa K. Valde¿s
Timeline: Pertinent Events in the Greater Antilles Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico
Contributors
Index

Vanessa K. Valdés is Director of the Black Studies Program and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York, City University of New York. Her books include Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, also published by SUNY Press.