The Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierThis welcome interpretation of Haiti provides many insights into a country that few North Americans understand. Wilentz, a journalist, captures the complex cultural ambience and mystery of domestic politics with a penetrating eye and powerful description. Covering the years 1986-89, Wilentz analyzes political developments, centering her interpretations on the activities of a radical priest, interspersed with individual Haitian portraits and personal incidents. The flavor of Haiti is superbly conveyed, as are some unsavory aspects of the role of the press, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. embassy, but Wilentz's narrative is often unclear and her objectivity flawed. For academic and large public libraries.-- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia . -Library Journal. |
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... fire seemed to be burning behind Grande Rue , behind a huge old empty iron building filled with rickety wooden market stalls . The Iron Market , I later learned . We drove around the building , and suddenly we could see the fire . It ...
... fire seemed to be burning behind Grande Rue , behind a huge old empty iron building filled with rickety wooden market stalls . The Iron Market , I later learned . We drove around the building , and suddenly we could see the fire . It ...
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... fire was going up and the sun was coming down , and the two different kinds of light met in the banana grove . The pig was good and dead , and the men were crowded around him , but he wouldn't take the fire . The pastor's wife presided ...
... fire was going up and the sun was coming down , and the two different kinds of light met in the banana grove . The pig was good and dead , and the men were crowded around him , but he wouldn't take the fire . The pastor's wife presided ...
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Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. and legs and swing him over the fire , a blessing for the fire or the child , it's hard to say which . Benito washes his hands in the fire . The hounsis take the basin and commence washing the women pa ...
Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. and legs and swing him over the fire , a blessing for the fire or the child , it's hard to say which . Benito washes his hands in the fire . The hounsis take the basin and commence washing the women pa ...
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