Abstract
By moving beyond familiar binaries, French/Spanish, Black/white, colony/nation, the paper challenges comparative frameworks that isolate Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Drawing on Achille Mbembe’s genealogical approach to decolonization, Frantz Fanon’s account of liberation as violent and world-making, and Mary Louise Pratt’s “contact zones,” it traces how colonial divergence and revolution produced not two isolated national stories but a shared terrain of forced unifications, mutual influence, and contested memory.
Recommended Citation
Vučetić, Mihailo
(2026)
"Beyond the Mountain: Rethinking Decolonization in Quisqueya through Complementarity of Haiti and the Dominican Republic,"
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History: Vol. 16:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
DOI: 10.20429/aujh.2026.160203
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/aujh/vol16/iss2/3