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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... women were dozing amid their wares . Filo , finished with his taping for tomorrow's broadcast on Souvenance , was once again reclining among the women at the foot of the habitation's central tree , a huge tamarind , a tree in which the ...
... women were dozing amid their wares . Filo , finished with his taping for tomorrow's broadcast on Souvenance , was once again reclining among the women at the foot of the habitation's central tree , a huge tamarind , a tree in which the ...
Page 180
... women had sold off all their produce , and were getting ready to return to their field to care for the crop . So their neighbors had a hard time selling eggplants , and it seemed as though the two women might get a monopoly on the Passe ...
... women had sold off all their produce , and were getting ready to return to their field to care for the crop . So their neighbors had a hard time selling eggplants , and it seemed as though the two women might get a monopoly on the Passe ...
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... women of Duverger carrying their water back from the river , Waldeck with his vanilla ice - cream cones , and the ... women walking down the road with water on their heads , the man coming down my hill wrapped in cellophane - these are ...
... women of Duverger carrying their water back from the river , Waldeck with his vanilla ice - cream cones , and the ... women walking down the road with water on their heads , the man coming down my hill wrapped in cellophane - these are ...
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