Common Borders, Separate Traumas, and the Rethinking of Collectivities in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones

The Farming of Bones is a fictional account of the 1937 Haitian Massacre by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo Molinas on the island of Hispaniola that focuses on the traumatic history across the borderline of Haiti and Dominican Republic. My aim is to show how survival stories can rewrite the histo...

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