Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiSimon & Schuster, 1992 - 303 pages A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy. |
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... French in language , Cath- olic in religion , democratic in government . In practice , Haiti in 1953 was a collection of 32 million blacks ruled by a largely mulatto upper class ; its business was controlled by the so - called elite and ...
... French in language , Cath- olic in religion , democratic in government . In practice , Haiti in 1953 was a collection of 32 million blacks ruled by a largely mulatto upper class ; its business was controlled by the so - called elite and ...
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... French harangues , pompous and unreal , filled public discourse . Some of the poets were bringing Creole into their French or using Creole , the linguistic fact on the ground , in their writing . Its spicy reality put some limit to the ...
... French harangues , pompous and unreal , filled public discourse . Some of the poets were bringing Creole into their French or using Creole , the linguistic fact on the ground , in their writing . Its spicy reality put some limit to the ...
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... French . He used initiative and improvisation to communi- cate the needed emotions for the Minister . When he saw something good ( neon signs , a paved road , smiling faces ) , he cried , " Ah oui , Excellence , oui ! oui ! " When he ...
... French . He used initiative and improvisation to communi- cate the needed emotions for the Minister . When he saw something good ( neon signs , a paved road , smiling faces ) , he cried , " Ah oui , Excellence , oui ! oui ! " When he ...
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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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