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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.
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