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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... spirits . Dieumerci's wife looks at him scornfully as he tells me about the Protestants . His " conversion " has caused many fights between them , she says . She blames it for the family's most recent string of bad luck , the little ...
... spirits . Dieumerci's wife looks at him scornfully as he tells me about the Protestants . His " conversion " has caused many fights between them , she says . She blames it for the family's most recent string of bad luck , the little ...
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... spirits . It was the Protestant influence , she said . Too many people had gone over to the new religion , and now there were Mormons , she had heard , whatever that was , and a new school down the road , built by the Salvation Army ...
... spirits . It was the Protestant influence , she said . Too many people had gone over to the new religion , and now there were Mormons , she had heard , whatever that was , and a new school down the road , built by the Salvation Army ...
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... spirits return now only to show us our sins . The bodies come out of their tombs in the rain . This rain was from Agwe . It is a sign . " He has painted in one of the groom's shoes , a fancy affair with green laces . He is painting ...
... spirits return now only to show us our sins . The bodies come out of their tombs in the rain . This rain was from Agwe . It is a sign . " He has painted in one of the groom's shoes , a fancy affair with green laces . He is painting ...
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