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Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature
(New World Studies)

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Because of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking
Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while Haiti,
occupying the western side of their shared island of Hispaniola, has become one of the poorest
countries in the Americas. While some scholars have pointed to such disparities as definitive of
the island&#8217literature, Megan Jeanette Myers challenges this reduction by considering how
certain literary texts confront the dominant and, at times, exaggerated anti-Haitian Dominican
ideology.Myers examines the antagonistic portrayal of the two nations&#8213frm the anti-Haitian
rhetoric of the intellectual elites of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo&#8217rule to the writings of
Julia Alvarez, Junot D&#237az and others of the Haitian diaspora&#8213eneavoring to reposition
Haiti on the literary map of the Dominican Republic and beyond. Focusing on representations of
the Haitian-Dominican dynamic that veer from the dominant history, Mapping Hispaniola disrupts
the magnification and repetition of a Dominican anti-Haitian narrative.