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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... office door . At a radio station in Cap - Haïtien . In the kitchen of a rich Haitian artist . Painted on a wall in the La Saline slum . On a door in an inner office of the Canadian Embassy . On flyers announcing dem- onstrations . Even ...
... office door . At a radio station in Cap - Haïtien . In the kitchen of a rich Haitian artist . Painted on a wall in the La Saline slum . On a door in an inner office of the Canadian Embassy . On flyers announcing dem- onstrations . Even ...
Page 315
... office ? " He climbed in the back , and we rode around Raboteau . In each zone of the slum -which looks more like Soweto than any other Haitian bidonville— a line of people had formed at the polling place . At some intersec- tions , the ...
... office ? " He climbed in the back , and we rode around Raboteau . In each zone of the slum -which looks more like Soweto than any other Haitian bidonville— a line of people had formed at the polling place . At some intersec- tions , the ...
Page 322
... office that the CEP had set up with U.S. funding to facilitate the reporting of election returns , journalists were lining up to call their mothers on the AT & T USA Direct phones . Long sheets of printout paper had been hastily taped ...
... office that the CEP had set up with U.S. funding to facilitate the reporting of election returns , journalists were lining up to call their mothers on the AT & T USA Direct phones . Long sheets of printout paper had been hastily taped ...
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