... hold up as the answer to this question an end to loneliness. Creating places elsewhere offers an imagination of connection and, perhaps, a longed-for antidote to increasingly virtual and disconnected ways of being. cosmology Epicurus Aristotle Fontenelle ...

... as an antidote to violence. Literature of Compassion rayano massacre Haitian solidarity trauma literature ...

... violence transformed into physical violence at the hands of the Trujillo regime. Contradicting anti-Haitian ideology, the literary works the chapter studies propose solidarity and compassion as an antidote to violence. Literature of Compassion rayano massacre Haitian solidarity trauma literature ...