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Book SynopsisWhat has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alai Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin.
Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region's history: the nineteenth century; the 1930s; and the past thirty years.
Trade Review"With breadth, depth, originality, and intellectual acumen, Reyes-Santos builds on her conceptualization of transcolonial and transnational kinship through a number of social and cultural examples to arrive at a more diversified approach in literary and cultural studies."
-- Myrna García-Calderón * Syracuse University *
"Alaí Reyes-Santos's elegant work unites vernacular and elite voices to discuss nationalist thought in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Her insights help us claim our intellectual traditions in contemporary struggles for justice." -- April J. Mayes * author of The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity *
Featured on the weekly book list (http://bit.ly/1K5Phrs) * Chronicle of Higher Education *
Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Our Caribbean Kin 1 The Emancipated Sons: Nineteenth-Century Transcolonial Kinship2 Narratives in the Antilles3 Wife, Food, and a Bed of His Own: Marriage, Family, and Nationalist Kinship in the 1930s4 Like Family: (Un)recognized Siblings and the Haitian-Dominican Family5 Family Secrets: Brotherhood, Passing, and the Dominican–Puerto Rican Family Coda: On Kinship and SolidarityNotesBibliographyIndex
