TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prestol Castillo,Freddy
AU  - Randall,Margaret
AU  - Fumagalli,Maria Cristina
TI  - You can cross the massacre on foot
T2  - Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
SN  - 9781478003205
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - History
KW  - 1930-1961
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Translated from the Spanish
N2  - 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.Transl. by Margaret Randall
ER  -