{"product_id":"istwa-across-the-water","title":"Istwa Across the Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize\u003c\/b\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\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\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","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55805459464536,"sku":"9780813068619","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813068619_fb26b87a-8d53-4fc8-95d8-832d3196c4f0.jpg?v=1777796154","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/istwa-across-the-water","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}