You can cross the massacre on foot /
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border during the massacre, known as "The Cutting," and docu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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| Summary: | In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border during the massacre, known as "The Cutting," and documented the atrocities in real time in You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot. Written in 1937, published in Spanish in 1973, and appearing here in English for the first time, Prestol Castillo's novel is one of the few works that details the massacre's scale and scope. Conveying the horror of witnessing such inhumane violence firsthand, it is both an attempt to come to terms with personal and collective guilt and a search to understand how people can be driven to indiscriminately kill their neighbors. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Spanish. |
| Physical Description: | xxv, 148 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781478003205 1478003200 9781478003830 1478003839 |