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Don't think that I ever posted here on this book on the border
"On The Edge - Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic"
Maria Christina Fumagalli
Published by
Liverpool University Press
2015
Christina was referred to me through a message board on Haiti and we wrote back and forth before she first came to the DR to start her "on the ground" research. When she said that he was taking her 9 month old up to Dajabon. I insisted that I come with them. We also made a long journey of a week down to Pedernales/Anse a Pitres together. After those trips, she - along with her husband Jon and their son, Ernesto, and I became fast friends over the next three years, spending two Christmas celebrations together.
It is an academic book drawn from literature published in French and Spanish. Christina did a lot of research in the National Library in Santo Domingo where she was given a private office as a visiting scholar.
Christina is Italian and a professor of English at the University of Essex, specializing in the Caribbean. (Oh- how those multi-lingual Europeans fill me with envy!)
Written in English and dating back to 1791, and carrying on to the present day, it will most iikely be of many Dominicans on this Board.
I was honored to be included in the Acknowledgements.
I am not sure where it can be purchased but am sure that it is in both the National Library and that of Funglode.
"On The Edge - Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic"
Maria Christina Fumagalli
Published by
Liverpool University Press
2015
Christina was referred to me through a message board on Haiti and we wrote back and forth before she first came to the DR to start her "on the ground" research. When she said that he was taking her 9 month old up to Dajabon. I insisted that I come with them. We also made a long journey of a week down to Pedernales/Anse a Pitres together. After those trips, she - along with her husband Jon and their son, Ernesto, and I became fast friends over the next three years, spending two Christmas celebrations together.
It is an academic book drawn from literature published in French and Spanish. Christina did a lot of research in the National Library in Santo Domingo where she was given a private office as a visiting scholar.
Christina is Italian and a professor of English at the University of Essex, specializing in the Caribbean. (Oh- how those multi-lingual Europeans fill me with envy!)
Written in English and dating back to 1791, and carrying on to the present day, it will most iikely be of many Dominicans on this Board.
I was honored to be included in the Acknowledgements.
I am not sure where it can be purchased but am sure that it is in both the National Library and that of Funglode.
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