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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghostedmiscategorized or erasedthe Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance. Dixa Ramírez places the Dominican people and Dominican expressive culture and history at the forefront of an insightful investigation of colonial modernity across the Americas and the African diaspora. In the process, she untangles the forms of free black subjectivity that developed on th
Trade ReviewIn this piercing and important study, Dixa Ramírez has given scholars of the so-called New World an indelible intellectual gift.Scholarship of the highest order. -- Junot Díaz,Pulitzer Prize winner and author of This is How You Lose Her
