Haiti The Lost Paradise

Author : Lynda Criswell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055740567X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haiti: The Lost Paradise written by Lynda Criswell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to take a two month visit to Haiti? This book was written from Milot, Haiti, where the author was asked to set up a Vocational Sewing School under the authority of Good Shepherd Ministry. You may be surprised or shocked at some of her experiences, but you will also see her love of the people. Join her in this adventure.

Author : Philippe R. Girard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost Haiti's written by Philippe R. Girard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Girard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980314
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost written by P. Girard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why has the United States felt a need to repeatedly intervene in Haiti's affairs? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions in Paradise Lost . He examines how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally, as Haitians remain deeply suspicious of white foreigners' motives, many of whom doubt Haitians' ability to govern themselves. He also examines how Haiti's current political instability is merely a continuation of two hundred years of political strife that began during the War of Independence (1791-1804). Finally, Girard explores poverty's devastating impact on contemporary Haiti. This book is different from others in the field, arguing that Haitians - particularly home-grown dictators - bear a big share of the responsibility for their nation's troubles. In addressing the current situation in Haiti by looking to the nation's tumultuous past, Paradise Lost is timely and potentially controversial.

Author : Osline Pierre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736073803
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haitian Dream written by Osline Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that most Haitians are living in the worst possible human conditions? Would you be compelled to take action if you knew that all hope seems to be crushed? We all know that Haiti is a land of widespread misery and chronic political crisis. But few are aware that our history should not dictate our destiny. These too long suffocated people have the capacity to regain their inner strength and to rise again despite everything.There is hope! Haitians are overcomers and deserve more than a life of deprivation. Though barriers we face seem to be insurmountable, change is urgent; but it will not happen overnight. Indeed, it is difficult, but it is possible to alter the patterns of poverty.The Haitian Dream will help you:- Hope again and embrace the mindset of change- Believe we are valuable and have what it takes to redefine the course of history- Stop normalizing mediocracy, the lack of integrity, and character- Embark on the journey to rebuild a self-sufficient country and end the cycle of eternal dependency- Start building a strong foundation towards a truly independent country with equal access to quality education and healthcare, infrastructure, job creation, entrepreneurialism, economic growth, product and service innovation, etc.- Stand against modern apartheid- Renounce all practices that threaten to cancel our destiny

Author : Rameau Pierre
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449004814
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plaintive Voices of Haiti to the World written by Rameau Pierre and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladies and gentlemen what you are holding in your hands right now and about to read is the Haitian people's complaint to the world; it is their will and their vision for a new Haiti. It is the dreams and hopes of the new generation; it is a tool to help guide the Haitian people in the transition from politicians that have made questionable choices to the new visionary leaders, a tool to assist them in the process of transformation from misery to prosperity and wellbeing. This is a book that going to bring to the light who are responsible for Haitian people's misery and will explain also the self-denial of a group of Haitian in Haiti and overseas for the cause of Haiti and for the benefit of the Haitian people. This book will explain an extraordinary story of an ordinary man who has vision for Haiti's struggle. His father was murdered, his mother got kidnapped and was robbed three times, all because they spoke out for a better life, and they spoke out for peace and justice in Haiti. From 1804 to 2010, exactly 206 years of independence and 206 years of calamity, humiliation, isolation and corruption, after all those years it's still raising some fundamental questions how much more the Haitian people have to endure? How long they have to wait to get help? After the earthquake, the entire world sympathized with Haiti and gave billions to leaders and to non profit organizations that has been established in this country for years to help the people and to rebuild Haiti. After four months, yet nothing has been done and in the capital I know many hurting people who haven't received any help, not even a bottle of water. In the mean time people continue to die, suffer, and among them tension starts raising high and in my point of view, I don't see any evidence that those leaders in this country has any desire to make any changes in the direction of better quality of life for the Haitian people. Today I am seeking justice in a very different and unusual way, I want to establish for the first time in Haiti rules and principles that can't be violated by anyone and prove to the world how an ordinary man can really do an extraordinary change in a country known as a land of corruption, a land of poverty and impunity.

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070650
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir). written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island...The 36th entry in Akashic's Noir series (which ranges from Bronx to Delhi to Twin Cities) is beautifully edited, with a spectrum of voices." --Kirkus Reviews "This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait of the real Haiti not seen on the evening news and introduce them to some original and wonderful writers." --Library Journal "Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture and resilience that is cause for celebration." --Publishers Weekly "A solid contribution to the noir] series, especially for its showcasing of a setting not commonly portrayed in crime fiction." --Booklist "Danticat has put together a collection possessing classic noir elements--crimes and criminals and evil deeds only sometimes punished--but also something else, perhaps uniquely Haitian too." --Los Angeles Times "The characters that emerge in the anthology are divergent figures, alienated by exile, thriving in the diaspora and devastated by limited choices. Their stories are multi-layered, thrilling and necessary." --Ms. Magazine "Who can ever judge how important Danticat has been to Americans' understanding and re-evaluating Haiti's position and role in the hemisphere? Not just as a novelist and essayist in her own right, but as editor and guiding force behind this collection of short stories and the re-publication and English translation of the Chauvet triptych, the Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to its triumphs, from the tiny bouks of the countryside to the shanties of the sprawling bidonvilles. Danticat herself has a lovely story in the collection, and permits two distinguished foreign writers on Haiti, Madison Smartt Bell and Mark Kurlansky, to slide in there among all the brilliant Haitians." --Daily Beast "Haiti Noir...showcases the diversity, humour, beauty and originality of 'Haitian' writing." --Wasafiri (UK) Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint- loi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. Fievre, Mark Kurlansky, Marvin Victor, Josaphat-Robert Large, Marie Lily Cerat, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia D. Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, and Patrick Sylvain. From the introduction by Edwidge Danticat "I began working on this anthology about a year before January 12, 2010, when Haiti was struck by its worst natural disaster in over two hundred years. The world knows now that more than two hundred thousand people died and over a million lost their homes in Haiti's capital and the surrounding cities of L og ne, Petit-Go ve, and Jacmel. As I am writing these words, survivors remain huddled by the thousands in displacement camps, most shielding themselves from intermittent rain with nothing but wooden posts and bedsheets. Even before the earthquake, life was not easy in Haiti. There was always the risk of dying from hunger, an infectious disease, a natural disaster, or a crime. But there was also hope, laughter, and boundless creativity. Haitian creativity has always been one of the country's most identifiable survival traits. Whether expressed in vibrant and colorful paintings, double entendre--filled spiritual or party music, or the poignant, humorous, erotic, lyrical (and yes, also dark) short stori

Author : J. Michael Dash
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349252190
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haiti and the United States written by J. Michael Dash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative literature, argues Michael Dash, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the nineteenth-century until it emerges with a voyeuristic fierceness in the 1960s. In an effort to resist these stereotypes, Haitian literature becomes a subversive manoeuvre permitting Haitians to 'rewrite' themselves. The Unites States 'invented' Haiti as a land of savagery and mystery, a source of evil and shame. Weaving together text and historical context, Dash discusses the durability of these images, which continue to shape official policy and popular attitudes today.

Author : Martin Munro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318548
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature written by Martin Munro and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature provides readers with an excellent introduction to recent Haitian literature, one of the richest literary traditions in the Americas. Martin Munro focuses on works written after 1946, 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.

Author : Justin Izzo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004622
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments with Empire written by Justin Izzo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.

Author : Patrick E. Bryan
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435983017
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haitian Revolution and Its Effects written by Patrick E. Bryan and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1984 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: