{"product_id":"the-tears-of-hispaniola-luca-m-su-rez-9780813030524","title":"The Tears of Hispaniola: Haitian and Dominican Diaspora Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The first book on the market that considers the experience of Haitians and Dominicans in the United States in one single effort of analysis and does so through the cultural venue of literary texts produced by writers from the two communities.\"--Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A new understanding of the island of Hispaniola. . . . [This] work brings to the fore a most neglected aspect of Caribbean history--the close links between two nations, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who are perceived as enemies but whose peoples have shared similar histories of violence and pain.\"--Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tears of Hispaniola\u003c\/i\u003e appraises the ways in which Haitian and Dominican diaspora writings serve as public record--documenting violence, terror, memory, and human rights violations on the island of Hispaniola, home to the two nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Luc? Su疵ez offers a thorough and delicately nuanced reading of central works by Jean-Robert Cadet, Junot D?z, Loida Maritza P駻ez, and Edwidge Danticat, to establish the function of this literature as a socio-literary catalyst, and to bring attention to the larger injustices still occurring on the island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories of a \"torn country\" continue to haunt the people of Hispaniola's diaspora. In their images of what they left behind and what exists today, these writers engage in a process Su疵ez contends can transform unspeakable truths into memoirs of survival, understanding, and resistance. She argues that as authors and intellectuals articulate traumatic memories of their homeland, and expose the intersections of new violations in their host country, their writing creates a venue to transcend violence and claim justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf particular importance is how Su疵ez interprets these texts as a platform from which to consider questions of ethnic identity and social reform for the large and growing U.S.-Caribbean community. The author suggests that citizens of the diaspora challenge prejudices and make a distinct impact on the cultural landscape of the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a pioneering book that offers a compassionate and constructive, comparative analysis of the literatures and societies that have emerged from Haitian and Dominican dispersion to the United States. It thus offers a critical and highly important lens toward the understanding of the links between literature, history, and memory. \u003ci\u003eThe Tears of Hispaniola\u003c\/i\u003e boldly reframes Caribbean and diaspora literature in terms of a new pan-Caribbean diasporic canon in the Americas..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luc? M. Su疵ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813030528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813030524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Luc? M. Su疵ez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926377955583,"sku":"9780813030524","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ac271372-ebbd-43c6-b2af-4b40b440e88f.jpg?v=1681082744","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tears-of-hispaniola-luca-m-su-rez-9780813030524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}