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The Rainy Season

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Buch | Softcover
427 Seiten
1994 | New edition
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-974880-9 (ISBN)
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Through a series of personal journeys, interwoven with scenes from the country's past, Amy Wilentz documents her travels in Haiti from 1986, days before the ousting of the President for Life, Jean-Claude Duvalier. She reports on the streets, the countryside, and the peasant's religion, voodoo.
Through a series of personal journeys, interwoven with scenes from the country's past, Amy Wilentz documents her arrival in Haiti in 1986, days before the ousting of Haiti's President for Life, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and shows how the hope of change turned to disappointment when liberation led to chaos and stagnation. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, Wilentz leads the reader through the streets, bustling by day, and by night filled with gunfire and burning tyres. She explores the countryside where young soldiers control road-blocks and farmers struggle to survive, and where belief in voodoo, the peasants' religion, is as strong as ever. Wilentz offers portraits of today's Haitians - Father Aristide the rebel priest and spiritual force behind the opposition, the various military-backed leaders, the wild children who roam the streets, the State Department men, the Christian missionaries, and the international press corps who jet in for each coup. Amy Wilentz has written articles on Haiti for "The Village Voice", "The Nation", "Grand Street" and "Newsday".
Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.5.1994
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 197 mm
Gewicht 322 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10 0-09-974880-0 / 0099748800
ISBN-13 978-0-09-974880-9 / 9780099748809
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