Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... called " délire verbale , " that verbal delirium in which earnest old - fashioned French harangues , pompous and unreal , filled public discourse . Some of the poets were bringing Creole into their French or using Creole , the ...
... called " délire verbale , " that verbal delirium in which earnest old - fashioned French harangues , pompous and unreal , filled public discourse . Some of the poets were bringing Creole into their French or using Creole , the ...
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... called collaboration . A former friend called him Papa Doc's Albert Speer . The best writers were trying to express the conflicts between a static peasant culture , country people following African traditions , and the feudal society ...
... called collaboration . A former friend called him Papa Doc's Albert Speer . The best writers were trying to express the conflicts between a static peasant culture , country people following African traditions , and the feudal society ...
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... called Jewfish . In another village it was called poisson israélite . And in another , poisson Assad , because it had been found on lands belonging to a man named Assad , a Lebanese . Tal played with my children , sat with my wife ...
... called Jewfish . In another village it was called poisson israélite . And in another , poisson Assad , because it had been found on lands belonging to a man named Assad , a Lebanese . Tal played with my children , sat with my wife ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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