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FERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ, DANIELA RITA. The Cross-Border Community vs. the Totalizing Regime: Readings of René Philoctète's Le Peuple des Terres Mêlées. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2025, vol.16, n.36, pp.67-84.  Epub 05-Sep-2025. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202516.36.04.

The present text has the objective of analyzing the reconstruction of the Parsley Massacre of 1937 in the historical novel Le peuple des terres mêlées, by the Haitian author René Philoctète. For this purpose, the interrelationship between the characters as a reflection or overcoming of anti-Haitianist ideas, the construction of space and the treatment of Trujilloism were taken into account. The research was interdisciplinary. Historical-logical methods, discourse analysis and literary analysis were used. The novel approaches the massacre of 1937 from a high rationalization of history, understood as an internal and polyphonic process. It bets on the brotherhood between the Dominican and Haitian people. There is a critique of monolithic national projects and the imposition of borders that are not very permeable, taking into account the characteristics of cross-border societies.

Palabras clave : René Philoctète; literature; history; 20^th century; Trujillo dictatorship; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Caribbean.

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