Lauren Derby

Bêtes Noires

Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 368 Seiten

ISBN 1478029358

EAN 9781478029359

Veröffentlicht 18. November 2025

Verlag/Hersteller Duke University Press

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Beschreibung

Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons called baka/bacÁ as a way to reckon with a shared history of enslavement, colonialism, and exploitation.

Portrait

Lauren Derby is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo and coeditor of The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke University Press.