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- The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic
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- 2021
- Published by: Amherst College Press
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Border of Lights, a volunteer collective, returns each October to Dominican-Haitian border towns to bear witness to the 1937 Haitian Massacre ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. This crime against humanity has never been acknowledged by the Dominican government and no memorial exists for its victims. A multimodal, multi-vocal space for activists, artists, scholars, and others connected to the BOL movement, The Border of Lights Reader provides an alternative to the dominant narrative that positions Dominicans and Haitians as eternal adversaries and ignores cross-border and collaborative histories. This innovative anthology asks large-scale, universal questions regarding historical memory and revisionism that countries around the world grapple with today.
"By bringing together in one volume poetry, visual arts, literary analysis, in-depth interviews and historical analysis this volume will provide its readers with a comprehensive view of the causes and the aftermath of the massacre." —Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martínez, University of British Columbia
Contributions by Julia Alvarez, Amanda Alcántara, DeAndra Beard, Nancy Betances, Jésula Blanc, Matías Bosch Carcuro, Cynthia Carrión, Raj Chetty, Catherine DeLaura, Magaly Colimon, Juan Colón, Robin Maria DeLugan, Lauren Derby, Rosa Iris Diendomi Álvarez, Polibio Díaz, Rana Dotson, Rita Dove, Rhina P. Espaillat, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Saudi García, Scherezade García, Juan Carlos González Díaz, Kiran C. Jayaram, Pierre Michel Jean, Nehanda Loiseau Julot, Jake Kheel, Carlos Alomia Kollegger, Jackson Lorrain “Jhonny Rivas”, Radio Marién, Padre Regino Martínez Bretón, Sophie Maríñez, April J. Mayes, Jasminne Mendez, Komedi Mikal PGNE, Osiris Mosquea, Megan Jeanette Myers, Rebecca Osborne, Ana Ozuna, Edward Paulino, John Presimé, Laura Ramos, Amaury Rodríguez, Doña Carmen Rodríguez de Paulino, The DREAM Project, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ilses Toribio, Deisy Toussaint, Évelyne Trouillot, Richard Turits, William Vazquez, Chiqui Vicioso, Bridget Wooding, and Óscar Zazo.
"By bringing together in one volume poetry, visual arts, literary analysis, in-depth interviews and historical analysis this volume will provide its readers with a comprehensive view of the causes and the aftermath of the massacre." —Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martínez, University of British Columbia
Contributions by Julia Alvarez, Amanda Alcántara, DeAndra Beard, Nancy Betances, Jésula Blanc, Matías Bosch Carcuro, Cynthia Carrión, Raj Chetty, Catherine DeLaura, Magaly Colimon, Juan Colón, Robin Maria DeLugan, Lauren Derby, Rosa Iris Diendomi Álvarez, Polibio Díaz, Rana Dotson, Rita Dove, Rhina P. Espaillat, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Saudi García, Scherezade García, Juan Carlos González Díaz, Kiran C. Jayaram, Pierre Michel Jean, Nehanda Loiseau Julot, Jake Kheel, Carlos Alomia Kollegger, Jackson Lorrain “Jhonny Rivas”, Radio Marién, Padre Regino Martínez Bretón, Sophie Maríñez, April J. Mayes, Jasminne Mendez, Komedi Mikal PGNE, Osiris Mosquea, Megan Jeanette Myers, Rebecca Osborne, Ana Ozuna, Edward Paulino, John Presimé, Laura Ramos, Amaury Rodríguez, Doña Carmen Rodríguez de Paulino, The DREAM Project, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ilses Toribio, Deisy Toussaint, Évelyne Trouillot, Richard Turits, William Vazquez, Chiqui Vicioso, Bridget Wooding, and Óscar Zazo.
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- Title Page
- p. i
- Copyright Page
- p. ii
- Foreword: Parsley
- pp. vii-x
- Section I: Bearing Witness: Activist and Academic Essays
- Azúcar Amargo
- pp. 54-60
- Construyendo puentes, no muros
- pp. 83-85
- To Dajabón, with Love
- pp. 101-105
- Quisqueya Sankofa Consciousness
- pp. 171-179
- Committed to Solidarity
- pp. 180-183
- Mwen pa dyab men m ap konte moun
- pp. 192-194
- Johnny Rivas
- p. 195
- “Desafíos y éxitos en la frontera”
- pp. 196-199
- A Portrait in Charcoal1
- pp. 200-204
- El racismo, una causa encubierta1
- pp. 205-208
- Una autobiografía fronteriza
- pp. 213-214
- Section II: Artistic Endeavors
- Postcard and Portrait Projects
- pp. 217-223
- Yo soy esa negra1
- pp. 231-232
- Morir Soñando1
- pp. 237-238
- Fwontyè Limye yo, 2019
- pp. 239-240
- Dajabón en acuarela
- p. 241
- Negritud de las fronteras
- pp. 242-248
- In Dialogue with Pierre Michel Jean
- pp. 249-253
- Derrière les masques/Detrás de las máscaras
- pp. 254-258
- Border of Lights
- pp. 259-264
- “For Petronila, the Weaver” and “Petronila”
- pp. 265-266
- For the Love of Lina
- pp. 271-278
- Section III: Interviews
- Section IV: Voice Notes from la frontera
- Trilingual Contributor Biographies
- pp. 317-333
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 335-336
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9781943208272
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1264299236
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2021-11-15
Language
English
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CC-BY-NC
Copyright
2021
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