Lauren Derby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 195024 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lauren Derby |
| NOMBRES | Lauren |
| APELLIDO | Derby |
| FIRMA | DERBY L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6796-2875 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez
Stealing the Citadel
This essay analyzes popular Haitian tales about sovereign theft by stealth which seek to expose machinations of graft and usurpation by outsiders and politicians. The foundational act for this genre of popular narratives in Haiti I argue is the indemnity that the Haitian State was forced to pay France of 150 million francs in exchange for international recognition to compensate for losses in property incurred by the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)…
On the Edge
In what Samuel Martinez has aptly described as the “fatal conflict model,” Haitian–Dominican relations are frequently cast as inevitably bellicose, as if linguistic, demographic, and developmental
The Mulatto Republic
Imperial Idols
The Dominican Republic Reader
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for be…
Beyond Fugitive Speech
This essay argues for the utility of fugitive speech forms as primary sources for Caribbean historical research. It seeks to shift the discussion from forms such as autobiography and the memoir to more ephemeral speech forms such as hearsay, rumor, and gossip on the grounds that peripheral genres enable a glimpse of subaltern agency that often evades public discourse. The essay argues that unsanctioned speech forms get us closer to everyday exper…
Trujillo, the Goat
The Devil Wears Dockers
This essay examines popular narratives that a spirit demon or bacá lurked in an export garment plant in the Santiago trade zone of the Dominican Republic in the early 2000s. By interpreting thebacástory, and the transformation of the bacá itself from a rural context to an urban factory, we unpack the changing nature and meaning of employment under neoliberal capitalism, and tease apart complex geographies of status, exploitation, technology and d…
Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
Three recent volumes-Parés and Sansi (eds.), Sorcery in the Black Atlantic; Paton and Forde (eds.), Obeah and Other Powers; and Sweet, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World-set a new bar for scholarship about Caribbean and Latin American sorcery, stressing its contingency as well as its transnational and cosmopolitan aspects. Their richly contextualized case studies of African-derived practices rela…
Bringing the Animals Back in
This essay argues that bringing animals into the study of Latin American and Caribbean environmental history could serve several purposes. It would forge a point of entry into the phenomenology of everyday life in rural societies, since animals stand at the nexus of the relationship between man and the land, hence nature and culture. It is through caring for beasts that one interacts with the environment in ways that get the historian one step cl…
El sur dominicano (1680 - 1795)
This study explores the transformation of Dominican society during the long eighteenth century, a period often described as one of abandonment by Spain and thus extreme poverty as official trade evaporated. As agriculture was reduced to subsistence levels and pirates ravaged the few extant slaves, the crown was forced to allow the use of free labor in agriculture. The Dominican economy reoriented toward provisioning the sugar plantation economy o…
The Dictator’s Seduction
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator's Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a "vernacular pol…
The strange case of Minerva Bernardino
Dominican Cultures
This fine collection of essays offers a much-needed introduction to the historical formation of Dominican society and culture. Penned by several of the most prominent scholars of Dominican history and society, this translation will be very useful for teaching purposes since it offers a sampling of key scholarship that remains unavailable in English. Originally prepared for the national museum, El Museo del Hombre Dominicano, these essays made a s…
Imperial Secrets
Rumour is the process by which a collective historical consciousness is built. (Jan Vansina) Secrecy lies at the very core of power. (Elias Canetti)
In the Shadow of the State
This essay examines the politics and practice of official discourse during the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, one of the longest dictatorships in modern Latin America (1930–61). I focus here on two official oratorical genres: denunciation, and a highly stylized form of “panegyric,” or praise speech, to Trujillo that became pro forma in all public arenas by citizens and state officials alike. These speech forms were most important in t…
The Dictator's Seduction
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 2000
Haitians, Magic, and Money
Sitting on the banks of the shallow riverine waters separating the northern border towns of Dajabón of the Dominican Republic and Ouanaminthe of Haiti, one can see children wade, market women wash, and people pass from one nation to another. They are apparently impervious to the official meaning of this river as a national boundary that rigidly separates these two contiguous Caribbean island nations. Just as the water flows, so do people, goods, …
You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot
This breathless and tortured novel offers a unique perspective on the massacre of ethnic Haitians in the Dominican borderlands in 1937 by dictator Rafael Trujillo since it was penned by one of the
Haitians, Magic, and Money
Sitting on the banks of the shallow riverine waters separating the northern border towns of Dajabón of the Dominican Republic and Ouanaminthe of Haiti, one can see children wade, market women wash, and people pass from one nation to another. They are apparently impervious to the official meaning of this river as a national boundary that rigidly separates these two contiguous Caribbean island nations. Just as the water flows, so do people, goods, …
Bringing the Animals Back in
This essay argues that bringing animals into the study of Latin American and Caribbean environmental history could serve several purposes. It would forge a point of entry into the phenomenology of everyday life in rural societies, since animals stand at the nexus of the relationship between man and the land, hence nature and culture. It is through caring for beasts that one interacts with the environment in ways that get the historian one step cl…
Imperial Idols
Beyond Fugitive Speech
This essay argues for the utility of fugitive speech forms as primary sources for Caribbean historical research. It seeks to shift the discussion from forms such as autobiography and the memoir to more ephemeral speech forms such as hearsay, rumor, and gossip on the grounds that peripheral genres enable a glimpse of subaltern agency that often evades public discourse. The essay argues that unsanctioned speech forms get us closer to everyday exper…
Imperial Secrets
Rumour is the process by which a collective historical consciousness is built. (Jan Vansina) Secrecy lies at the very core of power. (Elias Canetti)
The strange case of Minerva Bernardino
In the Shadow of the State
This essay examines the politics and practice of official discourse during the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, one of the longest dictatorships in modern Latin America (1930–61). I focus here on two official oratorical genres: denunciation, and a highly stylized form of “panegyric,” or praise speech, to Trujillo that became pro forma in all public arenas by citizens and state officials alike. These speech forms were most important in t…
The Dictator's Seduction
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 2000
Stealing the Citadel
This essay analyzes popular Haitian tales about sovereign theft by stealth which seek to expose machinations of graft and usurpation by outsiders and politicians. The foundational act for this genre of popular narratives in Haiti I argue is the indemnity that the Haitian State was forced to pay France of 150 million francs in exchange for international recognition to compensate for losses in property incurred by the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)…
The Devil Wears Dockers
This essay examines popular narratives that a spirit demon or bacá lurked in an export garment plant in the Santiago trade zone of the Dominican Republic in the early 2000s. By interpreting thebacástory, and the transformation of the bacá itself from a rural context to an urban factory, we unpack the changing nature and meaning of employment under neoliberal capitalism, and tease apart complex geographies of status, exploitation, technology and d…
Haitians, Magic, and Money
Sitting on the banks of the shallow riverine waters separating the northern border towns of Dajabón of the Dominican Republic and Ouanaminthe of Haiti, one can see children wade, market women wash, and people pass from one nation to another. They are apparently impervious to the official meaning of this river as a national boundary that rigidly separates these two contiguous Caribbean island nations. Just as the water flows, so do people, goods, …
The Dictator's Seduction
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 2000
In the Shadow of the State
This essay examines the politics and practice of official discourse during the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, one of the longest dictatorships in modern Latin America (1930–61). I focus here on two official oratorical genres: denunciation, and a highly stylized form of “panegyric,” or praise speech, to Trujillo that became pro forma in all public arenas by citizens and state officials alike. These speech forms were most important in t…
Imperial Secrets
Rumour is the process by which a collective historical consciousness is built. (Jan Vansina) Secrecy lies at the very core of power. (Elias Canetti)
The Dictator’s Seduction
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator's Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a "vernacular pol…
The strange case of Minerva Bernardino
Dominican Cultures
This fine collection of essays offers a much-needed introduction to the historical formation of Dominican society and culture. Penned by several of the most prominent scholars of Dominican history and society, this translation will be very useful for teaching purposes since it offers a sampling of key scholarship that remains unavailable in English. Originally prepared for the national museum, El Museo del Hombre Dominicano, these essays made a s…
Bringing the Animals Back in
This essay argues that bringing animals into the study of Latin American and Caribbean environmental history could serve several purposes. It would forge a point of entry into the phenomenology of everyday life in rural societies, since animals stand at the nexus of the relationship between man and the land, hence nature and culture. It is through caring for beasts that one interacts with the environment in ways that get the historian one step cl…
El sur dominicano (1680 - 1795)
This study explores the transformation of Dominican society during the long eighteenth century, a period often described as one of abandonment by Spain and thus extreme poverty as official trade evaporated. As agriculture was reduced to subsistence levels and pirates ravaged the few extant slaves, the crown was forced to allow the use of free labor in agriculture. The Dominican economy reoriented toward provisioning the sugar plantation economy o…
Trujillo, the Goat
The Devil Wears Dockers
This essay examines popular narratives that a spirit demon or bacá lurked in an export garment plant in the Santiago trade zone of the Dominican Republic in the early 2000s. By interpreting thebacástory, and the transformation of the bacá itself from a rural context to an urban factory, we unpack the changing nature and meaning of employment under neoliberal capitalism, and tease apart complex geographies of status, exploitation, technology and d…
Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
Three recent volumes-Parés and Sansi (eds.), Sorcery in the Black Atlantic; Paton and Forde (eds.), Obeah and Other Powers; and Sweet, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World-set a new bar for scholarship about Caribbean and Latin American sorcery, stressing its contingency as well as its transnational and cosmopolitan aspects. Their richly contextualized case studies of African-derived practices rela…
The Dominican Republic Reader
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for be…
Beyond Fugitive Speech
This essay argues for the utility of fugitive speech forms as primary sources for Caribbean historical research. It seeks to shift the discussion from forms such as autobiography and the memoir to more ephemeral speech forms such as hearsay, rumor, and gossip on the grounds that peripheral genres enable a glimpse of subaltern agency that often evades public discourse. The essay argues that unsanctioned speech forms get us closer to everyday exper…
Imperial Idols
The Mulatto Republic
On the Edge
In what Samuel Martinez has aptly described as the “fatal conflict model,” Haitian–Dominican relations are frequently cast as inevitably bellicose, as if linguistic, demographic, and developmental
You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot
This breathless and tortured novel offers a unique perspective on the massacre of ethnic Haitians in the Dominican borderlands in 1937 by dictator Rafael Trujillo since it was penned by one of the
The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez
Stealing the Citadel
This essay analyzes popular Haitian tales about sovereign theft by stealth which seek to expose machinations of graft and usurpation by outsiders and politicians. The foundational act for this genre of popular narratives in Haiti I argue is the indemnity that the Haitian State was forced to pay France of 150 million francs in exchange for international recognition to compensate for losses in property incurred by the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)…
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