Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Mar??ez, Sophie

Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas...
Dhs. 405.82 AED
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Author: Sophie Mar??ez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Mar??ez, Sophie

Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Dhs. 405.82

Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Dhs. 405.82
Author: Sophie Mar??ez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas

Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis accelerated in 2013 by the Dominican Constitutional Court's Ruling 168-13, which denationalized hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent. Spirals details how a paradigm of permanent conflict between the two nations has its roots in reactions to the Haitian Revolution--a conflict between slavers and freedom-seekers--contests over which have been transmitted over generations, repeating with a difference. Anti-Haitian nationalist rhetoric hides this long trajectory. Through the framework of the Spiral, a concept at the core of a Haitian literary aesthetic developed in the 1960s called Spiralism, Sophie Mar??ez explores representations of colonial, imperial, and national-era violence. She takes as evidence legislation, private and official letters, oral traditions, collective memories, Afro-indigenous spiritual and musical practices, and works of fiction, plays, and poetry produced across the island and its diasporas from 1791 to 2002.

With its emphases on folk tales, responses to the 1937 genocide, the Constitution of the Dominican Republic, Afro-indigenous collective memories, and lesser-known literary works on the genocide of indigenous populations in the Caribbean, Spirals in the Caribbean will attract students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Author: Sophie Mar??ez
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781512826401

About the Author
Sophie Maríñez is a Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and an affiliated Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Ph.D. Program in French at The Graduate Center.

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