Breaking the Archive: Beyond Exceptionalization and Ephemerality in Haitian and Dominican Digital Counterstories.

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Abstract: Although Dominican and Haitian digital archives still need to reckon with the ills of archival institutionalization, they have challenged what we continue to assume about both Dominicans and Haitians. How might innovative digital archiving practices create spaces for Dominican and Haitian histories beyond popular narratives of political, economic and social failure? How are these practices archived - or digitally archived? Importantly, how do Dominican and Haitian refusals function politically in very similar ways and how do counter-historical digital projects hold space for these refusals? I analyze the practices of two digital projects, Micro-syllabus: History from Below in the Dominican Republic by Amaury Rodríguez and H-Haiti, edited by Marlene L. Daut and Julia Gaffield. These projects do not relocate dominant narratives of Dominicans and Haitians, nor do they exclusively function to collect alternative or “counter” interpretations of Dominican and Haitian histories. Instead, I propose that they develop and rehearse an anti-colonial analytic for the complete destabilization of what we know or expect Dominican and Haitian identities to be.

Author	Torres, Shannen

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/hn566wz1164
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hn566wz1164

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Preferred citation: Torres, S. (2022). Shannen Torres Capstone. Breaking the Archive: Beyond Exceptionalization and Ephemerality in Haitian and Dominican Digital Counterstories. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/hn566wz1164

Stanford University, Center for Latin American Studies, Masters Degree Capstone Projects

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