{"product_id":"istwa-across-the-water-haitian-history-memory-and-the-cultural-imagination-8203-paperback","title":"Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination\u0026#8203; - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eToni Pressley-Sanon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its \"motherlands\" in Africa, \u003ci\u003eIstwa across the Water\u003c\/i\u003e recovers the submerged histories of the island through methods drawn from its deep spiritual and cultural traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToni 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 \u003ci\u003emarasa\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Kreyòl term \u003ci\u003eistwa\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging the tendency to read history linearly, this volume offers a bold new approach for understanding Haitian histories and imagining Haitian futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eToni Pressley-Sanon\u003c\/b\u003e, associate professor of African and African American studies at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Haitian Peasantry through Oral and Written Literature: Roumain, Alexis, Endore, Carpentier, and Fountain.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099509887111,"sku":"9780813068619","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/42e5d61200796d51d9343ccd9d38a67f.webp?v=1732374693","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/istwa-across-the-water-haitian-history-memory-and-the-cultural-imagination-8203-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}