| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 329 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Toussaint camp -- White flight -- Traumatic amputation -- Black Rouge's tour: I -- Zombies of the world -- Building back better -- Citizen Haiti -- Golf-course camp -- Missionary style -- Spaghetti rounds -- Werewolves in the camps -- Black Rouge's tour: II -- The violent-sex cure -- Pact with the devil -- Aristide's citadel -- Plastic wheelchairs -- Market of dreams -- The value of talk -- Ghosts by daylight -- Weslandia. |
| Summary |
The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentz's award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable account of a journalist's transformation by her subject." In her relationship with the country since then, Wilentz has witnessed more than one magical transformation. Now, with Farewell, Fred Voodoo, she gives us a vivid portrayal of the extraordinary people living in this stark place. Wilentz traces the country's history from its slave plantations through its turbulent revolutionary history, its kick-up-the-dirt guerrilla movements, its totalitarian dynasty that ruled for decades, and its long and always troubled relationship with the United States. Yet through a history of hardship shines Haiti's creative culture--its African traditions, its French inheritance, and its uncanny resilience, a strength that is often confused with resignation. Haiti emerged from the dust of the 2010 earthquake like a powerful spirit, and this stunning book describes the country's day-to-day struggle and its relationship to outsiders who come to help out. There are human-rights reporters gone awry, movie stars turned aid workers, priests and musicians running for president, doctors turned diplomats. A former U.S. president works as a house builder and voodoo priests try to control elections. A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages of this book, a lover of Haiti, pursuing the essence of this beautiful and confounding land into its darkest and brightest corners. Farewell, Fred Voodoo is a spiritual journey into the heart of the human soul, and Haiti has found in Amy Wilentz an author of astonishing wit, sympathy, and eloquence.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Haiti -- History.
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Haiti -- Description and travel.
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Haiti -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Haiti.
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Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
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Wilentz, Amy -- Travel -- Haiti.
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| ISBN |
9781451643978 hardback |
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1451643977 hardback |
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9781451644074 (pbk.) |
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1451644078 (pbk.) |
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