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42. In Focus Haiti A Guide to People Politics&Culture | |
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(2002)
Asin: B0038DJLUG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
43. Research in African Literatures, Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2004: Haiti, 1804-2004, Literature, Culture, and Art by John, Editor Conteh-Morgan | |
Paperback:
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(2004-01-01)
Asin: B002NXCEWE Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
44. African Collection: Manipulating Images Into Words by Fania Simon | |
Hardcover: 100
Pages
(2006)
Isbn: 0974858358 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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45. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Laurent Dubois, John D. Garrigus | |
Paperback: 240
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(2006-02-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description This volume details the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. Incited by the French Revolution, the enslaved inhabitants of the French Caribbean began a series of revolts, and in 1791 plantation workers in Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, overwhelmed their planter owners and began to take control of the island. They achieved emancipation in 1794, and after successfully opposing Napoleonic forces eight years later, emerged as part of an independent nation in 1804. A broad selection of documents, all newly translated by the authors, is contextualized by a thorough introduction considering the very latest scholarship. Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus clarify for students the complex political, economic, and racial issues surrounding the revolution and its reverberations worldwide. Useful pedagogical tools include maps, illustrations, a chronology, and a selected bibliography. Customer Reviews (3)
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46. Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Early America: History, Context, Culture) by Ashli White | |
Hardcover: 280
Pages
(2010-02-26)
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Editorial Review Product Description Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history. For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders. Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans -- black and white, northern and southern, Federalist and Democratic Republican, pro- and antislavery -- pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution. Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic. |
47. Comprendre Haiti: Essai sur l'Etat, la nation, la culture (French Edition) by Laennec Hurbon | |
Paperback: 174
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(1987)
Isbn: 2865371921 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
48. Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2006-11-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book introduces readers to the practice of Vodou and helps deconstruct and destroy stereotypes which have survived for hundreds of years. The authors in the collection--from Karen McCarthy Brown to Gerdes Fleurant to Leslie Desmangles--are leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of Vodou Studies. Tackling a wide range of Vodou practices and images, the essays within work to introduce readers to the history and practice of this religion, and to correct the fiction of Vodou which has been circulating as fact. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, the country in which it has its strongest following, examining the influence it has on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art. By looking in detail at the beliefs and practices in one country, the reader will begin to understand this unique religion and the multiple domains in which it operates. |
49. Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferriere, Danticat (Liverpool University Press - Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures) by Martin Munro | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(2007-05-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book provides readers with an excellent introduction to Haitian literature, one of the richest literary traditions in the Americas. Martin Munro focuses on work written after 1946 up to the present, a period in which exile has become the dominant theme in Haitian literature. Using this notion of Haitian writing as a literature of exile, Munro analyzes key novels by the most important figures of each generation of the past sixty years, including Jacques-Stephen Alexis, René Depestre, Émile Ollivier, Dany Laferrière, and Edwidge Danticat. |
50. Vodou: A Sacred Theatre--The African Heritage in Haiti by Marie Jose Alcide Saint-Lot | |
Hardcover: 220
Pages
(2004-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description The book provides a solid framework to fit Vodou as starting from Africa progressing to the island setup in Saint-Domingue where an economy based on slavery was intertwined with a maroon based social setting. |
51. Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool University Press - Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures) by Kaiama L. Glover | |
Hardcover: 256
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(2011-02-15)
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53. Haiti: From a Legacy of Freedom to an Explosion of Cultures: December 1-21, 2001 (Memories and Expectations: A Path to Spirituality) by Iris | |
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(2001)
Asin: B002O4YKUG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
54. Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations (W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series) by Sidney W. Mintz | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(2010-03-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the societies and on the island people who befriended him. These reflections illuminate continuities and differences between these cultures, but even more they exemplify the power of people to reveal their own history. Mintz seeks to conjoin his knowledge of the history of Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico—a dynamic past born of a confluence of peoples of a sort that has happened only a few times in human history—with the ways that he heard people speak about themselves and their lives. Mintz argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization represented a tremendous creative act by enslaved peoples: that creolization was not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement. Globalization is not the new phenomenon we take it to be. This book is both a summation of Mintz's groundbreaking work in the region and a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined. Customer Reviews (1)
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55. Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2011-04-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description On January 12, 2010 a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, had worked in the country for nearly thirty years, treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS. No one understood better than he how painful it was that Haiti, the site of so much suffering, would have to endure another disaster. It was, in his words, a “cruel cosmic joke.” Farmer and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti. Now their project was transformed into a massive international rescue and relief effort. In his own words, Farmer documents this effort, including the harrowing obstacles and the small triumphs. Support came in the form of dozens of humanitarian groups and a flood of money. Despite this outpouring of aid, the challenges were astronomical. U.N. plans were crippled by Haiti’s fragile infrastructure and the death of U.N. staff members who had been based in Port-au-Prince. As the humanitarian operations grew, questions about their effectiveness mounted. By some estimates, Haiti had more NGOs per capita than any other place on earth. And yet, Haitians were still suffering from a lack of basic services, from a lack of food, water, and shelter. Farmer shows how the earthquake heightened the problems in Haiti and argues that these long-term challenges cannot be ignored. In chronicling the relief effort, Farmer draws attention to the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to this natural disaster. Now that their already weak public-health system has been further damaged, Haiti’s poor are even more vulnerable to fresh onslaughts of diseases like cholera and typhoid. Yet Farmer’s account is not a gloomy catalog of impenetrable problems. As devastating as Haiti’s circumstances are, its population manages to keep going. Farmer shows how, even in the barest camps, Haitians organize themselves, creating small businesses such as beauty parlors. His narrative is interwoven with stories from Haitians themselves, from doctors and others working on the ground. Ultimately this is a story of human endurance and humility in difficult circumstances. Once again, Paul Farmer reveals what can be accomplished in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. |
56. Casualties 2010 Haiti Earthquake | |
Paperback: 76
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(2010-08-10)
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57. Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures) by Deborah Jenson | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2011-03-15)
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58. Radio Caraibes Haiti | |
Paperback: 102
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(2010-08-16)
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59. Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (New Americanists) by Keith L. Walker | |
Hardcover: 312
Pages
(1998-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first time the work of six writers who, while artistically distinct and geographically scattered, share complex sensibilities regarding their own relationship to France and the French language and, as he demonstrates, produce a counterdiscourse to their colonizers’ modern literary traditions. Martinique, French Guyana, Senegal, Morocco, and Haiti serve as the stage for the struggle these writers have faced with French language and culture, a struggle influenced by the legacy of Aimé Césaire. In his stand against the modernist principles of Charles Baudelaire, Walker argues, Césaire has become the preeminent francophone countermodernist. A further examination of the relationships between Césaire and the writers Léon Gontron Damas, Mariama Bâ, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ken Bugul, and Gérard Étienne forms the core of the book and leads to Walker’s characterization of francophone literature as having “slipped the knot,” or escaped the snares of the familiar binary oppositions of modernism. Instead, he discovers in these writers a shared consciousness rooted in an effort to counter and denounce modernist humanist discourse and pointing toward a new subjectivity formed through the negotiation of an alternative modernity. Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture will engage readers interested in French literature and in postcolonial, Caribbean, African, American, and francophone studies. Customer Reviews (1)
The Game of Slipknot, Contrast and Critisizm This book, was not only interesting but also puts you into a better perspecive to look at modern culture. How the world's beliefs and feelings have changes drastically. The main point of this story is about a heavy metal band Slipknot, and angered heavy metal band highly popular by rock/heavy metal fans, as they are considered as Maggots. As a huge fan of them I believe, I may have a different opinion than someone oblivious of the band. Overall I think this book is worth its money. So, if you are ready to take on a farely challenging book and enjoy criticing the modern art of music and culture this is the book for you. ... Read more |
60. DUVALIER, FRANÇOIS: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed.</i> by Sean Bloch | |
Digital: 2
Pages
(2006)
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