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The Borders Of Dominicanidad—Interview With Lorgia Garcia Peña, Nelson Santana, Amaury Rodríguez
The Borders Of Dominicanidad—Interview With Lorgia Garcia Peña, Nelson Santana, Amaury Rodríguez
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña is associate professor of Latinx Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, Fall 2016). Lorgia García Peña’s book delves deep into Dominican society and history by dissecting foundational myths and state-sponsored propaganda. Lorgia García Peña also looks at Dominican alternative cultural production and the socio-political resistance found in performance art and Afro-Dominican popular religions. In the most recent roundtable installment from the Ethnic Studies Rise initiative that celebrates the work and legacy of García Peña's scholarship, translator and scholar Kaiama Glover argued that [Lorgia …
Autores Dominicanos De La Diáspora: Apuntes Bio-Bibliográficos (1902-2012), Sarah Aponte, Franklin Gutiérrez
Autores Dominicanos De La Diáspora: Apuntes Bio-Bibliográficos (1902-2012), Sarah Aponte, Franklin Gutiérrez
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Reference work devoted to Dominican writers that have published outside the Dominican Republic, or the Diaspora. Includes a biography and bibliography of established and emerging writers as well as a significant number of self-published authors, ranging from 1902 to 2012. This essential reference work for Dominican Studies received the Medina Award at the 2014 SALALM Conference.