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A haunting Dominican legend comes alive: La Ciguapa, a mysterious woman of the mountains said to lure victims to their doom. But beyond the myth lies a deeper story—of colonial history, resistance, and identity. Is she a monster… or a symbol of survival and freedom?
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Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka
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Executive Producer: Dr. Emily Zarka
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Illustrator: Fanesha Fabre
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Bibliography
The introduction to Mayes, April J. The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.
Pons, Frank Moya. "The Politics of Forced Indian Labour in La Española 1493-1520." Antiquity 66, no. 250 (Mar 01, 1992): 130.
Stone, Erin Woodruff. “America’s First Slave Revolt: Indians and African Slaves in Española, 1500–1534.” Ethnohistory (DURHAM) 60, no. 2 (2013): 195–217.
Candelario, Ginetta E. B. “La Ciguapa y El Ciguapeo: Dominican Myth, Metaphor, and Method.” Small Axe : A Journal of Criticism (DURHAM) 20, no. 3 (2016): 100–112.
Frank Moya Pons, The Dominican Republic: A national history: https://archive.org/details/dominicanrepubli00fran
https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/sp2021/ciguapaunbound
