The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham.
| Author | Cooper, Thomas R., Jr. |
Dubois, Laurent, Kaiama L. Glover, Nadeve Menard, Millery Polyne, and Chantalle R Verna, eds. The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics is part of Duke University Press's successful Latin American Readers series. The editors are distinguished scholars who have devoted most of their academic careers to Haitian studies. They are joined by contributing editors who developed the introductions and translations. Passages in the book recount Haiti's history through its political, economic, literary, religious, and musical cultures. These works range across poetry, fiction, political essays, statutes and decrees, popular songs, folk tales, and paintings. The book opens with the creation of the Haitian state in 1804 and closes with the 2010 earthquake.
The book is divided into eight relatively chronological chapters. The first chapter, "Foundations," touches on prerevolutionary Haiti and concentrates on the personalities of the early leaders...
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