Haiti: Best Nightmare on EarthTransaction Publishers - 321 pages "In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for making high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people."-Chicago Tribune Book World "Goldhas a sharp eye for detail."-The Washington Times Magazine "Not just a good book, but a great one."-London Daily Mail "Herbert Goldgives his stories a wry, bright air of wonderhe is a born storyteller."-New York Times "One of the most gifted writers in America."-Detroit News Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation-his second home-remains as passionate and powerful as ever. Now, in Best Nightmare on Earth, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land. " Herbert Gold reflects on the country's history and politics, culture and folklore, but sees much more. He sees Haiti through the eyes of a lover: impassioned, jealous, probing, ever alert, and alive. This book will be of interest to travelers to, and people interested in the problems of, Haiti and the Caribbean; and collectors of Haitian art. Herbert Gold is a novelist, short writer, essayist, sometime journalist, who has made his living as a writer for fifty years. |
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... African and French and Haitian all at once , and negotiating their lives and their history with unique charm and difficulty . When the coastal waters began to turn tropical , Jean changed into a white linen suit and began to groan about ...
... African and French and Haitian all at once , and negotiating their lives and their history with unique charm and difficulty . When the coastal waters began to turn tropical , Jean changed into a white linen suit and began to groan about ...
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... African spirits . When my daughters suffered rashes or bites , Alaice and Gab- rielle , our cook , treated them with leaves and murmurings . Ann and Judy were soothed and calmed . We weren't sure if it was the wetted herbs or the ...
... African spirits . When my daughters suffered rashes or bites , Alaice and Gab- rielle , our cook , treated them with leaves and murmurings . Ann and Judy were soothed and calmed . We weren't sure if it was the wetted herbs or the ...
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... a validating trace of heroic African blood . The workaday criteria for class dis- tinction were color of skin , angle of nose , twist of hair , curl of lip , although all were proud of their slave ancestors 18 HERBERT GOLD.
... a validating trace of heroic African blood . The workaday criteria for class dis- tinction were color of skin , angle of nose , twist of hair , curl of lip , although all were proud of their slave ancestors 18 HERBERT GOLD.
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... African purity , such as the Mars family , of which a world - renowned member was Jean Price - Mars , author of the most influential Haitian book , a work of anthropology and history called Ainsi Parla I'Oncle — Thus Spake the Uncle ...
... African purity , such as the Mars family , of which a world - renowned member was Jean Price - Mars , author of the most influential Haitian book , a work of anthropology and history called Ainsi Parla I'Oncle — Thus Spake the Uncle ...
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... African roots and making voodoo pilgrimages to the magic mountain waterfall , Saut d'Eau , or the idealists dreaming of the sun - drenched paradise which would inevitably be created by the patient and laborious spirit of the Haitian ...
... African roots and making voodoo pilgrimages to the magic mountain waterfall , Saut d'Eau , or the idealists dreaming of the sun - drenched paradise which would inevitably be created by the patient and laborious spirit of the Haitian ...
Table des matières
Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Chapter Six Castaways | 75 |
Chapter Seven Land Without Jews | 91 |
Chapter Eight The Philosophers Circle | 109 |
Chapter Nine The Darkest Ages | 123 |
Chapter Ten Here Is the Young Leader that | 157 |
Chapter Eleven In Haiti They Run From | 181 |
Chapter Twelve Minglers | 203 |
Chapter Thirteen The Perfect Dear | 219 |
1986 | 233 |
Chapter Fifteen After the Dawn Came Another Night | 251 |
Chapter Sixteen Wonder of the World | 283 |
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Page xii - Nos ancêtres, les Gaulois, avaient les yeux bleus et les cheveux blonds. Our ancestors, the Gauls, had blue eyes and blond hair. V/y/y/yy^yyyy^JJ^^ U LaTOTtUe: the former buccaneer inland where a Texas company tried to make an independent M.ir.
Page 28 - Columbia and Carnegie Tech were beginning to replace the Sorbonne, but it was the graduate of French schools who won the respect due a scholar and gentleman. An agronomist who defended his American hosts was admonished with the peasant saying: "The fish trusts the water, and it is in the water that it is cooked.
Page 17 - The little fellow does what he can, the big fellow does what he wants.