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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... Aristide's intentions. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis' innovative study of the Sacred Tales argues convincingly that the text should be read within the context of the Second Sophistic and that Aelius Aristides was anything but an eccentric ...
... Aristide's intentions. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis' innovative study of the Sacred Tales argues convincingly that the text should be read within the context of the Second Sophistic and that Aelius Aristides was anything but an eccentric ...
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... Aristides had had a dream in which Asclepius told him to go to the temple and get this ointment and to use it to good effect (Sacred Tales III, p. 22). Finally, we come to Aristide's notion of the 'exchange' of life. It happened that ...
... Aristides had had a dream in which Asclepius told him to go to the temple and get this ointment and to use it to good effect (Sacred Tales III, p. 22). Finally, we come to Aristide's notion of the 'exchange' of life. It happened that ...
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... Aristide's liberation theology; yet, his analysis is limited to a Marxist reading of Aristide's political commitment. He fails to notice that Marxism was used simply as a tool of analysis by Latin American liberationist theologians ...
... Aristide's liberation theology; yet, his analysis is limited to a Marxist reading of Aristide's political commitment. He fails to notice that Marxism was used simply as a tool of analysis by Latin American liberationist theologians ...
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