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Istwa across the Water - Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination (Paperback)
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Istwa across the Water - Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination (Paperback)
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Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association
Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book PrizeGathering
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 Kreyol term istwa. Challenging the tendency to read history
linearly, this volume offers a bold new approach for understanding
Haitian histories and imagining Haitian futures.
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