In Popular Culture
- Edwidge Danticat's novel The Farming of Bones chronicles the Haitians' escape from the Dominican Republic, following the massacre and the spread of antihaitianismo. Edwidge Danticat's short story "Nineteen Thirty-Seven," from Krik? Krak! also refers to the "Massacre River," as a site dividing Haiti from the Dominican Republic and where the protagonist's grandmother is killed.
- Rita Dove drew inspiration from the massacre for her poem "Parsley".
- The massacre, along with many other incidents of the Trujillo era, is discussed in the book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz.
- A fictional Haitian woman named Chucha is discussed as having escaped from this massacre in the book How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez.
- In the novel Massacre River, Haitian author René Philoctète tells the story of the massacre through his narrative of a Dominican man trying to save his Haitian wife.
- The massacre is a focus of Jacques Stephen Alexis' 1955 novel General Sun, My Brother.
- The Parsley massacre is chronicled in the novel El masacre se pasa a pié (The massacre crossed on foot) by Dominican author Freddy Prestol Castillo.
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