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Tales from the Heart of Haiti
Patti Marxsen |
| A collection of short stories presenting a fresh perspective of the people of Haiti by narrating their interactions with those who come from elsewhere and try to help. Haiti overflows with expatriates and missionaries who desire to do good, especially now. But how much do foreign "helpers" see and know? What can they comprehend? Only when we allow ourselves to... More |
March 2010, Educa Vision, Inc., 122pp, Paperback
ISBN 978-1-58432-615-1 |
$17.50 |
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The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar
Creating, Imagining, Theorizing
Keshia N. Abraham with a Preface by Carole Boyce Davies |
| Caribbean / African Diaspora Series |
| “What does it mean to be a Caribbean woman writer? Shall I write about being from the Caribbean or about being a woman?...And in what ways am I to differentiate being a writer from being a scholar? Should any such differentiation be made?”
The first volume in The Caribbean / African Diaspora Series, this collection of incisive and provocative essays... More |
September, 2009, Caribbean Studies Press, 462pp, Includes color illustrations, softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-565-9 |
$40.00 |
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Education, Assimilation, and Caribbean Identity
The Literary Journey of the French Caribbean
Marie Leticee, Ph.D. |
| A far-reaching and critical study of the role of education in shaping Caribbean identity. Perceptive studies of the literature and scholarship of French Caribbean writers are framed in the context of the foreign educational curriculum imposed on the people of these islands. Original research and literature analysis are combined in this syncretic approach to the development of the Caribbean... More |
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"Accepting assimilation into French culture meant that they could no longer define themselves as Antilleans. They were now defined by the other as a sub-group....Hence.... Read excerpt |
June, 2009, Caribbean Studies Press, 228pp, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-554-3 |
$24.50 |
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Memoir of an Amnesiac [Mémoire d'une Amnésique]
Jan J. Dominique, translated by Irline François, associate professor of Women's Studies, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Now available in English, this remarkable narrative of exile, loss, memory and imagination resonates with its readers. The author draws upon her traumatic experiences growing up under the dictatorship of François Duvalier, her complicated relationship with her father, and her understanding of Haitian history in this exploration of psychological and political oppression and exile. |
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"Memoir of an Amnesiac is a work of several dimensions: memoir, novel, roman à clef. In one facet it is an especially privileged and personal... Read review |
April, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press, 305pp, softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-473-7 |
$19.50 |
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Revolutionary Freedoms
A History of Survival, Strength, and Imagination in Haiti
Cecile Accilien, Ph.D., Columbus State University; Jessica Adams, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; and Elmide Meleance, Montgomery County (MD) Schools, Editors |
| This new perspective on Haitian history features essays that augment the historical paintings of renowned contemporary Haitian-American artist, Ulrick Jean-Pierre.
Poet, playwright, and scholar Kamau Brathwaite has written the powerful Foreword to this volume, which combines scholarship, experience, and inspiration to reveal the complex history of the island that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. Chapters cover pre-Columbian and colonial history;... More |
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Although Haiti is in constant political and economic turmoil, the fact remains that the Haitian Revolution has been a crucial benchmark in the... Read excerpt |
2006, Caribbean Studies Press, 266pp, 45 full-color reproductions, Hardcover
ISBN 1-58432-293-4 |
$40.00 |
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Haitian Laughter / Rire haïtien
A Mosaic of Ninety Miniatures in French and English, Bilingual Edition
Georges Anglade Translated from the French by Anne Pease McConnell |
| Haitian Laughter is constructed around the lodyans, a narrative genre that has blossomed in Haiti as an art of miniatures. The substantial reduction in scale that presides over their creation allows only the significant features to remain, like a medieval illumination, a Japanese bonsai, or simply a small-sized map of an immense territory. This makes each miniature a "dwarf-sized saga,"... More |
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The Meaning of Laughter
By Hugues St. Fort
With Rire haïtien / Haitian Laughter, Georges Anglade has taken a giant step in literary and linguistic innovation in... Read review |
2006, Educa Vision Inc., 400pp, Hardcover
ISBN 1-58432-359-0 |
$50.00 |
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