TY - BOOK AU - Ramirez, Dixa TI - Colonial Phantoms: : belonging and refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th century to the present SN - 9781479867561 AV - F1935 .R36 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - USA PB - NYU Press KW - Culture. KW - F1931-1941 History of the Americas- Dominican Republic KW - Heritage. KW - Dominican Republic N2 - Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted―miscategorized or erased―the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance ER -