This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Swept to power in 1991 as the champion of Haiti's impoverished majority and their demand for a more just, equal, and participatory democratic society, the charismatic priest-turned-president was overthrown by the military just seven months into his first term. Popular resistance to the junta compelled the United States to lead a multinational force to restore Aristide to power in 1994 to serve out the remainder of his presidency until 1996. When he was re-elected for a second and final term in 2000, Aristide had undergone a dramatic transformation. Expelled from the priesthood and no longer preaching liberation theology, his real objective was to consolidate his and his Lavalas party's power and preserve the predatory state structures he had vowed to dismantle just a decade earlier. To maintain power, Aristide relied on armed gangs, the police, and authoritarian practices. That strategy failed and his foreign-backed foes overthrew and exiled him once again in 2004. This time, however, the population did not rally in his defense. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of Haiti, The Prophet and Power explores the crisis of democratization in a poor, underdeveloped, peripheral society with a long history of dictatorial rule by a tiny ruling class opposed to changing the status quo and dependent on international economic and political support. Situating the country in its global context, Alex Dupuy considers the structures and relations of power between Haiti and the core capitalist countries and the forces struggling for and against social change.

An anthology of Haitian and Caribbean writers and poets presented by the Revue Tanbou. All 67 writers are published in the revue over the last fifteen years. A plethora of voices and poetic sensibilities united in these pages to display the beauty of Haitian literatures - in their Creole, French and English expressions - as well as the quest for justice and for authenticity of being. Each of these voices is a revelation that invites introspection.

A major book in Haitian literature, edited by Prof. Franck Laraque. A series of homages, reminiscences, poems and essays by writers who have known Paul Laraque. The list includes: Josaphat-Robert Large, Frantz-Antoine Leconte, Hughes St-Fort, Max Manigat, Frantz Latour, Jean Mtellus, Jean Prophte, Ren Dpestre, Robert Garoute, Grard Ptrus, Claude Pierre, Elie Leblanc, Jr., Gary Klang, Karn Bogat, Georges Jean Charles, Deniz Lauture, Clotaire Saint-Natus, Lochard Nol, Serge Franois, Berthony Dupont, Papados, Jean Andr Constant, Danielle Laraque Arena, Jack Hirschman, Michele Laraque, Marc Anthony Arena, Hatuey Laraque Two Elk, Ashley Laraque, Max Schwartz, Prosper Sylvain, Jr., Gabrielle Vimer, Anthony Phelps, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Grard Etienne, Eddy Msidor, Emmanuel Gilles, Frantz Ludeke, Fritz Clermont, Camille Gauthier, Kern Delince, Raymond Chassagne, Jean Gateau, Jean Claude Valbrun, Tontongi, Jean Mapou, Roger Savain, Michel-Ange Hyppolite.