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Record Nr.

UNINA9910500583503321

Autore

Myers Megan Jeanette

Titolo

The border of lights reader : bearing witness to genocide in the Dominican Republic  / / edited by Megan Jeanette Myers, Edward Paulino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, Massachusetts  : , : Amherst College Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-943208-27-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 336 pages) : : illustrations

Disciplina

327.729407293

Soggetti

Genocide - Haiti - History - 20th century

Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937

History

Haiti Relations Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Relations Haiti

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Bearing witness : activist and academic essays -- Interviews -- Voice notes from la frontera.

Sommario/riassunto

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.