{"product_id":"istwa-across-the-water-haitian-history-memory-and-the-cultural-imagination-paperback-softback-9780813068619","title":"Istwa Across the Water; Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813068619","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIstwa Across the Water\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHaitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination​\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eToni Pressley-Sanon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813068619\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 February 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e214 pages, 22 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.319 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559265431832,"sku":"9780813068619","price":17.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/istwa-across-the-water-haitian-history-memory-and-the-cultural-imagination-paperback-softback-9780813068619","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}