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s testimonial novel, You Can Cross the Mass acre on Foot, is a key text in understanding the thirty-one-year dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and the little-known racist massacre that occurred in 1937, the slaughter of 10,000-40,000 Haitians who found themselves on the wrong side of the border. (The total is still under debate-as corpses cannot report on casualties, many of them thrown in the sea.) Had it not been for an American journalist, Quentin Reynolds, who reported on the massacre in Collier's Magazine, the world might not have known about this atrocity. Even so, international attention was focused on Eu rope and the rumors and rumbles of the oncoming war. The Trujillo regime repressed all reporting, so the massacre was never officially or sufficiently addressed or redressed. Until the publication of Prestol Castillo's novel thirty-six years later, in 1973, no Dominican writer dared tackle this atrocity. The value of Prestol Castillo's book is its basis in the eyewitness reporting of the author, who at the time of the massacre was a judge stationed at the border. Troubling and eye-opening, the novel displays the origins of such genocides and the complicity of all tho

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

2020

Language

NL