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Author : Louisket Edmond
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453517707
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)
Download or read book The Tears of Haiti written by Louisket Edmond and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Author : Lucía M. Suárez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813029269
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Tears of Hispaniola written by Lucía M. Suárez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book on the market that considers the experience of Haitians and Dominicans in the United States in one single effort of analysis and does so through the cultural venue of literary texts produced by writers from the two communities."--Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University "A new understanding of the island of Hispaniola. . . . [This] work brings to the fore a most neglected aspect of Caribbean history--the close links between two nations, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who are perceived as enemies but whose peoples have shared similar histories of violence and pain."--Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College The Tears of Hispaniola appraises the ways in which Haitian and Dominican diaspora writings serve as public record--documenting violence, terror, memory, and human rights violations on the island of Hispaniola, home to the two nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Lucía Suárez offers a thorough and delicately nuanced reading of central works by Jean-Robert Cadet, Junot Díaz, Loida Maritza Pérez, and Edwidge Danticat, to establish the function of this literature as a socio-literary catalyst, and to bring attention to the larger injustices still occurring on the island. Stories of a "torn country" continue to haunt the people of Hispaniola's diaspora. In their images of what they left behind and what exists today, these writers engage in a process Suárez contends can transform unspeakable truths into memoirs of survival, understanding, and resistance. She argues that as authors and intellectuals articulate traumatic memories of their homeland, and expose the intersections of new violations in their host country, their writing creates a venue to transcend violence and claim justice. Of particular importance is how Suárez interprets these texts as a platform from which to consider questions of ethnic identity and social reform for the large and growing U.S.-Caribbean community. The author suggests that citizens of the diaspora challenge prejudices and make a distinct impact on the cultural landscape of the United States. This is a pioneering book that offers a compassionate and constructive, comparative analysis of the literatures and societies that have emerged from Haitian and Dominican dispersion to the United States. It thus offers a critical and highly important lens toward the understanding of the links between literature, history, and memory. The Tears of Hispaniola boldly reframes Caribbean and diaspora literature in terms of a new pan-Caribbean diasporic canon in the Americas.. Lucía M. Suárez is associate professor of Spanish at Amherst College.
Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 0805095624
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History written by Laurent Dubois and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution—the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers surrounding the island nation; and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. Dubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. He details how the crushing indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States—including a twenty-year military occupation—further undermined Haiti's independence. At the same time, Dubois shows, the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard-won liberty alienated the nation's leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. Yet as Dubois demonstrates, the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy, creating a powerful culture insistent on autonomy and equality for all. Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.
Author : Jonathan M. Katz
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137323957
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Big Truck That Went By written by Jonathan M. Katz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a monumental response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the relief effort has foundered. It's most basic promises—to build safer housing for the homeless, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters—remain unfulfilled. The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid that defies today's conventional wisdom; that the way wealthy countries give aid makes poor countries seem irredeemably hopeless, while trapping millions in cycles of privation and catastrophe. Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid "smarter." With coverage of Bill Clinton, who came to help lead the reconstruction; movie-star aid worker Sean Penn; Wyclef Jean; Haiti's leaders and people alike, Katz weaves a complex, darkly funny, and unexpected portrait of one of the world's most fascinating countries. The Big Truck That Went By is not only a definitive account of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we live in today.
Author : Franketienne
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744798
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Ready to Burst written by Franketienne and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the “brain drain” prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frankétienne’s words, a portrait of “the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power.” Widely recognized as Haiti’s most important literary figure and an outspoken challenger of political oppression, Frankétienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frankétienne “the Father of Haitian Letters.”
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616955023
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Breath, Eyes, Memory written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.
Author : Alex Morency
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450284191
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Length of Tears written by Alex Morency and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Anthony Moore is born in Haiti in 1979, he finds himself at a disadvantage to even his own twin, who everyone thinks is cuter because of his lighter skin. Things dont get any better; little Tonys mother dies when hes two years old. Shortly after, Tonys twin dies, and people begin to whisper that maybe hes somehow to blame. In a culture dominated by voodoo, people think little Tony could have used supernatural powers to kill his own twin out of jealousy. When Tonys father remarries, his stepmother treats him like an outsider and an outcast. Shedding tears becomes a regular part of life. Things seem to take a turn for the better when Tony moves to the United States with his father, but he must still contend with his evil stepmother as well as the competing messages he gets from Christianity and voodoo traditions. Join Tony as he comes of age and seeks to overcome abuse, confusion and cultural differences so he can move beyond The Length of Tears.
Author : Ryan Daniel Bacci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)
Download or read book No Tears for the Dead written by Ryan Daniel Bacci and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070650
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir). written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti has had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the calibre of Haitian writing is of the highest order. Features stories by Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, Jessica Fievre, Marilene Phipps, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Katie Ulysse, Yanick Lahens, Evelyne Trouillot, Kettly Mars, Rodney Saint-Eloi and many more.
Author : Paulette Poujol Oriol
Publisher : Ibex Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1588140202
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Vale of Tears written by Paulette Poujol Oriol and published by Ibex Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Caribbean Studies. Translated from the French by Dolores A. Schaefer. VALE OF TEARS is a stark, meditative, and vivid exploration of Coralie Santeuil's life through a series of flashbacks she has on New Year's eve as she makes fourteen stops while walking from one end of the busy city of Port-au-Prince to the other in a last quest to save her life and retain her dignity. Although the novel is set in the period around the Second World War, it is in many ways a book about contemporary Haiti. We pause to wonder what happens to the privileged when their world disintegrates. We contemplate thesurvival skills of the poor. Vale of Tears offers a critical reading of the class system and corruption which plague the country. Paulette Poujol-Oriol is one of Haiti's most celebrated novelists.
Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196160
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Immaculate Invasion written by Bob Shacochis and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti.” —Chicago Tribune Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis’s The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American intervention in Haiti. In 1994, the United States embarked on Operation Uphold Democracy, a response to the overthrow of the democratically elected Haitian government by a brutal military coup. As a reporter for Harper’s, Bob Shacochis traveled to Haiti and was embedded—long before the idea became popular in Iraq—with a team of Special Forces commandos for eighteen months. He came away with tremendous insight into Haiti, the character of American fighters, and what can happen when an intervention turns into a misadventure. In The Immaculate Invasion, Shacochis captures the exploits and frustrations, the inner lives and heroic deeds of young Americans as they struggle to bring democracy to a country ravaged by tyranny. The Immaculate Invasion is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Haiti in the past, its current state, and its future path. “An extraordinary book about an extraordinary event . . . I felt transported to Haiti. I could hear it. I could smell it. At moments I felt moved almost to tears, only to find myself, a page or two later, laughing out loud.” —Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine
Author : Mischa Berlinski
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374715165
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Peacekeeping written by Mischa Berlinski and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DARING, EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–NOMINATED AUTHOR OF FIELDWORK Mischa Berlinski’s first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews—Hilary Mantel called it “a quirky, often brilliant debut” and Stephen King said it was “a story that cooks like a mother”—and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now Berlinski returns with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world’s most intriguing country: Haiti. When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He’s sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town’s complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. But when Terry falls in love with the judge’s wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster. Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski’s gifts as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that is as fascinating as it is misunderstood—and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality.
Author : Mimerose Beaubrun
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872865746
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Nan Domi written by Mimerose Beaubrun and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an insider's account of Vodou's private, mystical, interior practice, discussing the author's own initiation and education in the religion.
Author : Leigh Rysko
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781461046752
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Teeth Not Tears written by Leigh Rysko and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teeth Not Tears is a testimony to the human spirit. The Thaylord brothers place a face to the situation in Haiti, then spur inspiration through their optimistic outlook on life.Teeth Not Tears is a non-fiction book that offers the world a glimpse into the lives of two Haitian brothers as they provide an exemplarily example of love, optimism, and courage through the losses of family members to the devastation that shook Haiti on January 12th, 2010."As long as I breathe, I love." ~Jean Fournes Thaylord
Author : Emília Viotti da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195106563
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood written by Emília Viotti da Costa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the 1823 slave rebellion in Demerara (now Guyana) - one of the largest in history. The 60,000 black slaves who rose up against their British masters were brutally put down. The book looks at the conflict which gave the rebellion life and the forces which finally ended slavery.
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569470251
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Krik? Krak! written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine powerful stories about life under Haiti's dictatorships: the terrorism of the Tonton Macoutes; the slaughtering of hope and the resiliency of love; about those who fled to America to give their children a better life and those who stayed behind in the villages; about the linkages of generations of women through the magical tradition of storytelling.
Author : Ann E. Burg
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545549949
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Serafina's Promise written by Ann E. Burg and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous novel in verse from the author of the Jefferson Cup award winner ALL THE BROKEN PIECES. Serafina hasa secret dream. She wants to go to schooland become a doctorwith her best friend, Julie Marie. But in their rural villageoutside Port-au-Prince, Haiti,many obstaclesstand in Serafina’s way--little money,never-ending chores,and Manman’s worries. More powerful eventhan all of theseare the heavy rainsand the shaking earththat test Serafina’s resolvein ways she never dreamed. At once heartbreaking and hopeful,this exquisitely crafted storywill leave a lasting impressionon your heart.
