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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... girls , Nina and Olga , and skinny Rosa . Most of the girls were from Haiti's neighbor , the Dominican Republic ; peo- ple told me that Haitian men preferred the Dominican girls ' light color - the color of mulattos . There was always ...
... girls , Nina and Olga , and skinny Rosa . Most of the girls were from Haiti's neighbor , the Dominican Republic ; peo- ple told me that Haitian men preferred the Dominican girls ' light color - the color of mulattos . There was always ...
Page 387
... girls in the backseat of my car kept chanting , " Viv Legliz Popilè . " We stopped at the traffic light at Delmas and Martin Luther King , and they kept singing . On Radio Haïti , I heard Lyliane Pierre - Paul begin her news broadcast ...
... girls in the backseat of my car kept chanting , " Viv Legliz Popilè . " We stopped at the traffic light at Delmas and Martin Luther King , and they kept singing . On Radio Haïti , I heard Lyliane Pierre - Paul begin her news broadcast ...
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... girls , pointing . I looked , expecting for no reason other than the little car's speed to see Aristide at the wheel . But no , the driver was the daugh- ter of the family to whom the priest had given his car after Freyci- neau , where ...
... girls , pointing . I looked , expecting for no reason other than the little car's speed to see Aristide at the wheel . But no , the driver was the daugh- ter of the family to whom the priest had given his car after Freyci- neau , where ...
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