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Anti-Haitian Rhetoric And The Monumentalizing Of Violence In Joaquin Balaguer's Guía Emocional De La Ciudad Romántica, Medar Serrata Dec 2012

Anti-Haitian Rhetoric And The Monumentalizing Of Violence In Joaquin Balaguer's Guía Emocional De La Ciudad Romántica, Medar Serrata

Medar Serrata

This essay compares four editions of the book Guía emocional de la ciudad romántica, by the Dominican author and politician Joaquin Balaguer. The book, a celebration of Santo Domingo’s monumental architecture, evokes the topos of the romantic poet who strolls down the streets of an ancient city admiring the remnants of the past. A closer examination, however, reveals a text deeply invested in the monumentalizing of violence—a text that portrays the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo as the savior of the nation. Moreover, the metaphorical stroll that the reader is invited to take reenacts the movement of history in order to …

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Serving The Spirits Across Two Seas: Vodou Culture In New York And Haiti, Elizabeth Mcalister Dec 1991

Serving The Spirits Across Two Seas: Vodou Culture In New York And Haiti, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

Paired with the most acclaimed photographers working in Haiti at the time, this article describes the religion of Vodou and how Haitians and those in the Haitian diaspora use the ancestral spirits for support, healing, and to make sense of their world.

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