Abstract

MARINEZ, Sophie. Allegories of a Tormented Sisterhood: Haiti in Dominican Literature. memorias [online]. 2016, n.28, pp.61-92. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.28.8097.

The violent controversy provoked in the aftermath of the much-decried 168-13 Constitutional Court ruling that stripped of their nationality thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent made it clear that the need to dismantle old paradigms representations of Haiti and Haitians in Dominican popular imagination has become more imperative than ever. This article reviews some of the tropes used to construct Haiti since its revolution in 1804 and argues that these tropes have coexisted with discourses and practices promoting fraternity, solidarity and peaceful coexistence. This alternative paradigm is embodied in the figure of Jacques Viau Renaud (1941-1965), a Haitian poet who resided in the Dominican Republic and a combatant who gave his life for the defense of Dominican democracy and sovereignty during the U.S. occupation in 1965.

Keywords : Dominican Republic; Haiti; Haitian-Dominican Relations; Dominican literature; Jacques Viau Renaud; TC-168/13.

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