The farming of bones by edwidge danticat5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Early official accounts of the Parsley Massacre claimed that the government and the military were not involved, rather a small band of farmers were to blame and some casualties were listed. It is arguable that history as it has been written is undone by Danticat’s novel (Strehle 29). As in the novel's acknowledgements, Danticat claims that “The Farming of Bones” is fictional but based on real events that have left their mark in history (Danticat 311). According to Danticat herself, writing about the massacre is an act of remembering it as an important part of the history of Haiti and the world. Danticat had actually visited Massacre River in 1995, the site of the massacre, which separates Haiti from the Dominican Republic. The Parsley Massacre of 1937 has been dramatized in Edwidge Danticat’s third book, “The Farming of Bones.” Danticat’s short story “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” was also about this event and was included in her National Book Award finalist collection Krik? Krak! (1995). ![]()
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