Voicing a lost history through photography in Hispaniola’s diasporic literature Public Deposited
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- March 22, 2019
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Birkhofer, Melissa Dee
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Abstract
- In this project, I examine the ways in which references to photographs in Hispaniola’s diasporic literature create a space from which to recoup a history that has been long silenced both on the island and within migrant communities abroad. The photographs mentioned in the works I address do not appear as photographs alongside the text, but rather as descriptions in the text. I address two diasporic writers from Hispaniola whose works include textual descriptions of photographs: Junot Díaz, born in the Dominican Republic who currently resides in New York and Edwidge Danticat, born in Haiti who currently resides in Miami.
- Date of publication
- August 2007
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- DeGuzmán, María
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Open access
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