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Istwa across the Water - Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination (Hardcover)
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Istwa across the Water - Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination (Hardcover)
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Gathering oral stories and visual art from both sides of the
Atlantic, Istwa across the Water stitches together fragmented parts
of the African diaspora. Toni Pressley-Sanon challenges the
tendency to read history linearly and recovers the submerged
histories of Haiti through alternative methods rooted in the
island's spiritual and cultural traditions. Using the Vodou concept
of marasa, or twinned entities, this book takes parts of Dahomey
(the present-day Benin Republic) and the Kongo region-from where
many Haitians are descended-as Haiti's twinned sites of cultural
production. It draws on poet Kamau Brathwaite's idea of
tidalectics, the back-and-forth movement of ocean waves, as a way
to look at cultural exchange. Above all, it searches out the places
where history and memory intersect, expressed by the Kreyol term
istwa, offering a bold new approach for understanding Haitian
histories and imagining Haitian futures.
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