{"product_id":"spirals-in-the-caribbean-sophie-marez-9781512826401","title":"Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirals in the Caribbean \u003c\/i\u003eresponds 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. \u003ci\u003eSpirals \u003c\/i\u003edetails 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eSpirals in the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e will attract students, scholars, and general readers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophie Mar??ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1512826405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512826401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Sophie Mar??ez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897500721407,"sku":"9781512826401","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_daf81d64-4915-43e6-bb64-839c5fcb38b0.jpg?v=1721374076","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spirals-in-the-caribbean-sophie-marez-9781512826401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}