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Chapter 17 - Haitian Literature and the Dominican Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Marlene L. Daut
Affiliation:
Yale University
Kaiama L. Glover
Affiliation:
Yale University
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This chapter examines the works of Haitian and diasporic Haitian authors who have addressed the relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the 1937 massacre to 2013 when the Dominican Constitutional Court issued Ruling 168-13, also known as La Sentencia, which denationalized thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent. While earlier writers and intellectuals largely followed a Marxist approach initiated by Jacques Roumain following the 1937 massacre, an ideological shift took place in the 1990s, imbricating race, nation, gender, and class. This shift reflected both global geopolitical changes, symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a broader identity turn drawing on race, feminist, and gender discourses in the United States. Fiction and essays by diasporic authors Edwidge Danticat, Roxane Gay, and Deisy Toussaint foreground the imperative to confront this violent past as a first step to purge its haunting effects, much of which inform the social resonance of anti-Haitian discrimination policies, including Court Ruling 168-13.

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Print publication year: 2024

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