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After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haitiby Edwidge DanticatISBN 0609609084 (0-609-60908-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti'Book summary:In After the Dance, one of Haitis most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart.
Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers. Now an adult, she resolves to return and exorcise her Carnival demons. She spends the week before Carnival in the area around Jacmel, exploring the rolling hills and lush forests and meeting the people who live and die in them. During her journeys she traces the heroic and tragic history of the island, from French colonists and Haitian revolutionaries to American invaders and home-grown dictators. Danticat also introduces us to many of the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the Carnival festivities to life. When Carnival arrives, we watch as she goes from observer to participant and finally loses herself in the overwhelming embrace of the crowd.
Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a lyrical narrative of a writer rediscovering her country along with a part of herself. Its also a wonderful introduction to Haitis southern coast and to the true beauty of Carnival. [via]More editions of After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti:
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AIDS And Accusation: Haiti And the Geography of Blameby Paul FarmerISBN 0520248392 (0-520-24839-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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All Souls' Risingby Madison Smartt BellISBN 1400076536 (1-4000-7653-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls' Rising'Book summary:In his breathtaking and powerful novel that garnered nominations for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Madison Smartt Bell leaves the dark contemporary world he has so brilliantly made his own in nine previously acclaimed novels and short story collections, such as Save Me, Joe Louis. Now he turns to the past and brings viscerally to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. The result is an explosive, epic historical novel of astonishing depth and range, catapulting Bell into the ranks of the finest living authors. [via]
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- All Souls' Rising: ISBN 0140259473 (0-14-025947-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - All Souls' Rising: ISBN 0517196921 (0-517-19692-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - All Souls' Rising : A Novel: ISBN 0679439897 (0-679-43989-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - All Souls' Rising: ISBN 1400076536 (1-4000-7653-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Avengers Of The New World: The Story Of The Haitian Revolutionby Laurent DuboisISBN 0674018265 (0-674-01826-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Banzaby Diane Wolkstein, Marc Tolon BrownISBN 0803704283 (0-8037-0428-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Beast of the Haitian Hillsby Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, Pierre Marcelin, Peter C. RhodesISBN 0872861899 (0-87286-189-9)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haitiby Herbert GoldISBN 0671755161 (0-671-75516-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolutionby C. L. R. JamesISBN 0679724672 (0-679-72467-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Breath, Eyes, Memoryby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1569471428 (1-56947-142-8)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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Bug-Jargalby Victor Hugo, Chris BongieISBN 1551114461 (1-55111-446-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeedby Jared DiamondISBN 0143036556 (0-14-303655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'Book summary:Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedians'Book summary:One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of American involvement in Vietnam, this novel presages the chaos in Haiti. Classic Graham Greene. [via]
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Dernier Jour D'UN Condamme/Bug-Jargalby Victor HugoISBN 2070369196 (2-07-036919-6)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Dew Breakerby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1400034299 (1-4000-3429-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dew Breaker'Book summary:From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a dew breaker a torturera man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
We meet him late in his life. He is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hardworking barber, a kindly landlord to the men who live in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, recognizable by the terrifying scar on his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him: his devoted wife and rebellious daughter; his sometimes unsuspecting, sometimes apprehensive neighbors, tenants, and clients. And we meet some of his victims.
In the books powerful denouement, we return to the Haiti of the dew breakers past, to his last, desperate act of violence, and to his first encounter with the woman who will offer him a form of redemptionalbeit imperfectthat will change him forever.
The Dew Breaker is a book of interconnected livesa book of love, remorse, and hope; of rebellions both personal and political; of the compromises we often make in order to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. Unforgettable, deeply resonant, The Dew Breaker proves once more that in Edwidge Danticat we have a major American writer. [via]
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haitiby Maya DerenISBN 0914232630 (0-914232-63-0)
Softcover, McPherson & Co
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El Reino De Este Mundoby Alejo CarpentierISBN 8432230154 (84-322-3015-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalizationby Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Laura FlynnISBN 1567511872 (1-56751-187-2)
Hardcover, Common Courage Pr
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The Farming of Bonesby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1569471266 (1-56947-126-6)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Farming of Bones'Book summary:In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity, the unexpected double delivery gels into a metaphor for the military-sponsored mass murder of Haitian emigrants. As the Señora's doctor explains: "Many of us start out as twins in the belly and do away with the other."
But Danticat's powerful second novel is far from a currently modish victimization saga, and can hold its own with such modern classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Color Purple. Its watchful narrator, the Señora's shy Haitian housemaid, describes herself as "one of those sea stones that sucks its colors inside and loses its translucence once it's taken out into the sun." An astute observer of human character, Amabelle Désir is also a conduit for the author's tart, poetic prose. Her lover, Sebastian, has "arms as wide as one of my bare thighs," while the Señora's complicit officer husband is "still shorter than the average man, even in his military boots."
The orphaned Amabelle comes to assume almost messianic proportions, but she is entirely fictional, as is the town of Alegría where the tale begins. The genocide and exodus, however, are factual. Indeed, the atrocities committed by Dominican president Rafael Trujillo's army back in 1937 rival those of Duvalier's Touton Macoutes. History has rendered Trujillo's carnage much less visible than Duvalier's, but no less painful. As Amabelle's father once told her, "Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of." Thanks to Danticat's stellar novel, the world will now know. --Jean Lenihan [via]
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Flowering Shrubsby James Underwood CrockettISBN 0316848158 (0-316-84815-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowering Shrubs'Book summary:1937, and Haitian Amabelle is a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic. When her boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car accident, a systematic round-up follows - ostensibly for repatriation but in fact a prelude to slaughter. Returning to Haiti, Amabelle is haunted by guilt. [via]
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Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Homeby Schiller, Nina, Glick, Georges Eugene FouronISBN 0822327910 (0-8223-2791-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earthby Herbert GoldISBN 0765807335 (0-7658-0733-5)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Haiti, History, and the Godsby Joan DayanISBN 0520213688 (0-520-21368-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haiti, History, and the Gods'Book summary:In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today.[via]
In examining the complex social fabric of French Saint-Domingue, which in 1804 became Haiti, Dayan uncovers a silenced, submerged past. Instead of relying on familiar sources to reconstruct Haitian history, she uses a startling diversity of voices that have previously been unheard. Many of the materials recovered here--overlooked or repressed historical texts, legal documents, religious works, secret memoirs, letters, and literary fictions--have never been translated into English. Others, such as Marie Vieux Chauvet's radical novel of vodou, Fonds des Nègres, are seldom used as historical sources.
Dayan also argues provocatively for the consideration of both vodou rituals and narrative fiction as repositories of history. Her scholarship is enriched by the insights she has gleaned from conversations and experiences during her many trips to Haiti over the past twenty years. Taken together, the material presented in Haiti, History, and the Gods not only restores a lost chapter of Haitian history but suggests necessary revisions to the accepted histories of the New World.More editions of Haiti, History, and the Gods:
The Immaculate Invasionby Bob ShacochisISBN 0756760178 (0-7567-6017-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Immaculate Invasion : A War Story with No War in Itby Bob ShacochisISBN 0140248951 (0-14-024895-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immaculate Invasion : A War Story with No War in It'Book summary:In The Immaculate Invasion, Bob Shacochis, winner of the 1985 National Book Award for Easy in the Islands, returns to the Caribbean setting to tell the story of Operation Uphold Democracy, the United States government's official name for its 1994 occupation of Haiti. Focusing on the Clinton administration's policymakers and the soldiers who implemented their plans, Shacochis explores the capacity for altruistic action in the midst of a bloody pandemonium of human-rights outrages. While the American military's original strategy was to obliterate the murderous regime of General Cedras--executing a "hard entry" with "attitude and with a lot of ammunition"--they quickly found themselves caught up in a haphazard scheme for the transformation of the despot's thugs into a political party. Such cynical accommodationism confused the rules of engagement and restricted soldiers' ability to respond to atrocities. One officer, Captain Lawrence Rockwood, infuriated with by superiors' bureaucratic disregard of the concentration-camp-like conditions of Haiti's prisons, disobeyed orders and personally attempted to seize a jail in which dozens of prisoners were slowly dying. Shacochis follows Rockwood through his subsequent arrest and court martial, which he faces unrepentantly: "I'm an American soldier," Rockwood insists, "not a member of the Waffen SS."
Blending Haitian history and culture with his accounts of living amongst a Special Forces team, Shacochis achieves an unsettling triumph of combat journalism that will earn The Immaculate Invasion comparisons to other modern classics, such as Michael Herr's Dispatches. Its focus on compassion urges a profound redirection of the purposes and application of American interventionism. --James Highfill [via]
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In Focus Haiti: A Guide to the People, Politics and Cultureby Charles ArthurISBN 1566563593 (1-56656-359-3)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haitiby Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Amy WilentzISBN 0883446820 (0-88344-682-0)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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The Kingdom of This Worldby Alejo Carpentier, Harriet De OnisISBN 0374521972 (0-374-52197-2)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kingdom of This World'Book summary:A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurpassed brutality, horror, and superstition under the reign of the black King Henri-Christophe. Through the eyes of the ancient slave Ti-Noel, The Kingdom of This World records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, erotomania, and fantastic grandeurs of false elegance.[via]More editions of The Kingdom of This World:
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The Kingdom of This Worldby Harriet De OnisISBN 0374530114 (0-374-53011-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kingdom of This World'Book summary:A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regimebuilt on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave laborin an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.[via]More editions of The Kingdom of This World:
Krik? Krakby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1569470251 (1-56947-025-1)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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Lonely Planet Dominican Republic and Haitiby Scott Doggett, Joyce ConnellyISBN 1740590260 (1-74059-026-0)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lydia Baileyby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0892725141 (0-89272-514-1)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Voodoo and Civil Strife in Haitiby Kathie KlareichISBN 1560257806 (1-56025-780-6)
Softcover, Nation Books
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The Magic Islandby W.B. SeabrookISBN 1557782105 (1-55778-210-5)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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The Magic Islandby William Buehler, W. B. SeabrookISBN 1569249490 (1-56924-949-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Island'Book summary:1929. The author's West Indian mail boat lay at anchor in a tropical green gulf. At the water's edge, lit by sunset, sprawled the town of Cap Haitien. Among the modern structures were the wrecked mansions of the 16th century French colonials who imported slaves from Africa and made Haiti the richest colony in the western hemisphere. In the ruins was the palace built for Pauline Bonaparte when Napoleon sent his brother-in-law with an imperial army to do battle with slaves who had won their freedom. All this was panoramic as they lay at anchor, but as night fell, it faded to vagueness and disappeared. Only the jungle mountains remained, dark, mysterious; and from their slopes came presently far across the water the steady boom of Voodoo drums. [via]
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Magic Orange Treeby Diane Wolkstein, Elsa HenriquezISBN 0805210776 (0-8052-1077-6)
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The Magic Orange Tree, and Other Haitian Folk Talesby Diane WolksteinISBN 0805206507 (0-8052-0650-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Belowby Carolyn E. FickISBN 0870496670 (0-87049-667-0)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklynby Karen McCarthy BrownISBN 0520224752 (0-520-22475-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn'Book summary:Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Mama Lola's daughter Maggie, a recent initiate and the designated heir to her Brooklyn-based healing practice. Out of these stories, in which dream and vision flavor everyday experience and the Vodou spirits guide decision making, Vodou emerges as a religion focused on healing brought about by mending broken relationships between the living, the dead, and the Vodou spirits.[via]
Mama Lola is also an important experiment in feminist ethnographic writing designed to address current questions in the field. Brown begins with the assumption that ethnography is not so much a science as a social art form rooted in human relationships, and as such it is open to moral and aesthetic questions as well as to those more routinely addressed to it. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of straightforward ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Mama Lola's story thus rises from a chorus of equally authoritative voices.
Deeply exploring the role of women in religious practices and the related themes of family and of religion and social change, Brown provides a rich context in which to understand the authority that urban Haitian women exercise in the home and in the Vodou temple. A broad range of general readers and scholars will find insights and new understandings in this startlingly original work.More editions of Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn:
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Masters of the Dewby Langston Hughes, Mercer Cook, Jacques RoumainISBN 0435987453 (0-435-98745-3)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of the Dew'Book summary:The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. He goes on to illustrate his ideas in a tangible way by finding water and bringing it to the fields through the collective labor of the villagers. In this political fable, Roumain is careful to create an authentic environment and credible characters. Readers will be emotionally moved as well as ideologically persuaded.
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Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolutionby Sibylle FischerISBN 0822332906 (0-8223-3290-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy KidderISBN 0375506160 (0-375-50616-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the Worldby Tracy KidderISBN 0812973011 (0-8129-7301-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World'Book summary:Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer-brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti-blasts through convention to get results. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.'s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. [via]
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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombieby Wade DavisISBN 0807842109 (0-8078-4210-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion. [via]
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poorby Paul Farmer, Martha SenISBN 0520243269 (0-520-24326-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor'Book summary:Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.[via]
Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.More editions of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor:
The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalierby Amy WilentzISBN 0671706284 (0-671-70628-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodouby Donald J. Cosentino, Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural Histor University of California, Donald CosentinoISBN 0930741471 (0-930741-47-1)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hopeby Youme LandowneISBN 0938317849 (0-938317-84-9)
Hardcover, Cinco Puntos Pr
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The Serpent and the Rainbowby Wade DavisISBN 0684839296 (0-684-83929-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serpent and the Rainbow'Book summary:In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti -- from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti's countryside.
The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of Historyby Michel-Rolph TrouillotISBN 0807043117 (0-8070-4311-7)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789 - 1804: A Brief History With Documentsby Laurent Dubois, John D. GarrigusISBN 1403971579 (1-4039-7157-9)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Storming The Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Wonby Brandt GoldsteinISBN 0743230019 (0-7432-3001-9)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940by Mary A. RendaISBN 0807849383 (0-8078-4938-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940'Book summary:The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism.
At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire. [via]
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Tell My Horseby Zora N. HurstonISBN 0913666335 (0-913666-33-5)
Softcover, Turtle Island Books
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaciaby Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael ReedISBN 0060916494 (0-06-091649-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Uses Of Haitiby Paul Farmer, Jonathan Kozol, Noam ChomskyISBN 1567513441 (1-56751-344-1)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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Voodoo in Haitiby Alfred MetrauxISBN 1425488757 (1-4254-8875-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voodoo in Haiti'Book summary:A master work of observation and description about the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their religion. [via]
Voodoo Loungeby Christian BaumanISBN 0743270983 (0-7432-7098-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistanceby Beverly Bell, Edwidge DanticatISBN 080148748X (0-8014-8748-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haitiby Jennie Marcelle SmithISBN 0801486734 (0-8014-8673-4)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniolaby Michele WuckerISBN 0809097133 (0-8090-9713-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Written in Bloodby Michael Heinl, Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon HeinlISBN 0761802304 (0-7618-0230-4)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Written in Blood'Book summary:This book is a complete history of Haiti from 1492 to the end of 1995. The first edition was and remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the most complete in any language. This second edition, revised and expanded by Michael Heinl, contains two more chapters as well as updated information to make it a must read for anyone interested in the history of Haiti and its people. [via]
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El Reino De Este Mundoby Alejo Carpentier, Federico AcevedoISBN 0847701875 (0-8477-0187-5)
Softcover, Universidad De Puerto Rico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Reino De Este Mundo'Book summary:Novela calificada por Mario Vargas Llosa como una de las mas acabadas que haya producido la lengua espanola, EL REINO DE ESTE MUNDO (1949) recrea de forma incomparable los acontecimientos que, a caballo entre los siglos xviii y xix, precedieron y siguieron a la independencia haitiana. Estimulado por la prodigiosa historia original y valiendose de un magistral dominio de los recursos narrativos, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) embarca al lector, merced al poder de su palabra, en un mundo exuberante, desaforado y legendario en el que brillan con luz propia el licantropo Mackandal, en quien se conjugan la rebelion popular y los poderes sobrenaturales, y el dictador Henri Christophe, quien alumbro en su palacio de SansSouci y la ciudadela de La Ferrière arquitecturas dignas de Piranesi. [via]
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El reino de este mundo / The Kingdom of this Worldby Alejo CarpentieISBN 8420655503 (84-206-5550-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El reino de este mundo / The Kingdom of this World'Book summary:Novela calificada por Mario Vargas Llosa como una de las mas acabadas que haya producido la lengua espanola, EL REINO DE ESTE MUNDO (1949) recrea de forma incomparable los acontecimientos que, a caballo entre los siglos xviii y xix, precedieron y siguieron a la independencia haitiana. Estimulado por la prodigiosa historia original y valiendose de un magistral dominio de los recursos narrativos, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) embarca al lector, merced al poder de su palabra, en un mundo exuberante, desaforado y legendario en el que brillan con luz propia el licantropo Mackandal, en quien se conjugan la rebelion popular y los poderes sobrenaturales, y el dictador Henri Christophe, quien alumbro en su palacio de SansSouci y la ciudadela de La Ferrière arquitecturas dignas de Piranesi. [via]
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LA Tragedie Du Roi Christopheby Aime CesaireISBN 2708701304 (2-7087-0130-4)
Softcover, Presence Africaine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Tragedie Du Roi Christophe'Book summary:Presence Africaine, 17.5*11 cm, 153 pages. [via]
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