<em>Spirals in the Caribbean</em> with author Sophie Maríñez

Wed, Oct 16, 2024

6:00 PM–9:00 PM

The Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas.

Join Professor Sophie Maríñez for a book launch reading of Spirals of the Caribbean and conversation with panelists Anne Eller (Yale), Carlos Decena (Rutgers), and Samuel Martínez (University of Connecticut). The event will be moderated by Diomelca Rivas, Ph.D. candidate in History at the GC. Light refreshments will be served at the end of the event. Please Register to attend.

In Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Sophie Maríñez challenges the “fatal conflict” paradigm dominating views of the relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In doing so, she uses the framework of the Spiral, a concept at the core of Spiralism, a Haitian literary aesthetic developed in the 1960s, to examine island-wide and diasporic literary and cultural productions from 1791 to 2002.

Spirals in the Caribbean will be available for sale at a 30% discount at the event. The book can also be ordered online at Penn Press using the code PENN-MARINEZ30 for a 30% discount.

About the Author

Sophie Maríñez

Sophie Maríñez is a Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and an affiliated Professor in the PhD Program in French at The Graduate Center. Her research has received the support of the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This event is organized and hosted by The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.