Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination​

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book PrizeGathering oral stories and visual...
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Author: Toni Pressley-Sanon
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Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination​ by Pressley-Sanon, Toni

Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination​

¥9,246

Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination​

¥9,246
Author: Toni Pressley-Sanon
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize


Gathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its "motherlands" in Africa, Istwa across the Water recovers the submerged histories of the island through methods drawn from its deep spiritual and cultural traditions.


Toni Pressley-Sanon employs three theoretical anchors to bring together parts of the African diaspora that are profoundly fractured because of the slave trade. The first is the Vodou concept of marasa, or twinned entities, which she uses to identify parts of Dahomey (the present-day Benin Republic) and the Kongo region as Haiti's twinned sites of cultural production. Second, she draws on poet Kamau Brathwaite's idea of tidalectics--the back-and-forth movement of ocean waves--as a way to look at the cultural exchange set in motion by the transatlantic movement of captives. Finally, Pressley-Sanon searches out the places where history and memory intersect in story, expressed by the Kreyòl term istwa.


Challenging the tendency to read history linearly, this volume offers a bold new approach for understanding Haitian histories and imagining Haitian futures.


Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author: Toni Pressley-Sanon
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780813068619

About the Author
Toni Pressley-Sanon, associate professor of African and African American studies at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of The Haitian Peasantry through Oral and Written Literature: Roumain, Alexis, Endore, Carpentier, and Fountain.

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