List of books published on Haiti in the 1990s

[Bob Corbett]

Compiled by Bob Corbett

This is a revision of the earler list, and I believe it is close
to complete. A second list will be forthcoming, see below.

SPECIAL NOTE: Since this list is quite long, I have
separated out certain types of books into a special list. This current
list does NOT include: LANGUAGE BOOKS NOT INCLUDED. DICTIONARIES AND
OTHER BOOKS FOR LEARNING LANGUAGE. It does not include ART books or
POETRY. I will do a special list of these later on.
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Expected in 1996

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand. DIGNITY.
University of Virginia, expected May, 1996.

Heinl, Robert Debs and Nancy. WRITTEN IN BLOOD.
University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, appearing
mid-Jan. '96. Updated with two new chapters going
through Oct. 1995. The price will be $30.- paperback,
$55 clothbound. It will be approx. 800 pages and will have
a number of maps and photos as well as two additional
chapters not found in the first edition.

1995
Bell, Madison Smartt. ALL SOULS' RISING.
Pantheon Books, NY, 1995. $25.95
ISBN # 0-679-43989-7.

A novel about Toussaint and the Haitian Revolution.

Cheong-Lum, Roseline Ng. HAITI.
Times Books International, Singapore.
1995. ISBN # 981-204-527-9

Overview of Haiti with exquisite photographs and
text.

Cosentino, Donald, ed. SACRED ARTS OF HAITIAN VODOU
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, LA, 1995.

Danticat, Edwidge. KRIK? KRAK!
Soho Press, Inc., 1995
853 Broadway, New York, NY. ISBN# 1-56947-02501.
Hardbound, $20.00.

This is a book not to be missed. Danticat writes with
passion and compassion. She has special insights into the
plight of Haitian women and situates her stories in a
realistic understanding of both the nearly hopeless situation
in Haiti today, and the difficulties of the immigrant
experience. This is a book of short stories.

Dayan, Joan. HAITI, HISTORY, AND THE GODS.
University of California Press, 1995.
ISBN # 0-520-08900-6 $35.00 cloth.

From publisher's ad: "By viewing Revolutionary-
era Haiti through the lenses of gender and
sexuality, Joan Dayan breathes life into an
important slice of history."

Guy, Rosa. THE SUN, THE SEA, A TOUCH OF THE WIND.
Dutton Books or Penguine. 1995. $22.95.
ISBN# 0-525-24780-7.

Intruguing novel of elite and expatriots in Haiti.
A cast of stunning characters.

Hurbon, Laennec (Lae = e trema). VOODOO: SEARCH FOR THE
SPIRIT. Trans. Lory Frankel. New York: Henry Abrams
(Discovery Series), 1995. ISBN 0-8109-2857-4. $12.95 (paper).

I have read the French original. Laennec has done a fantastic
job of surveying the principle aspects of Vodou, with helpful
color photo and image documentation of historic prints, Vodou
flags and paintings, actual ceremonies and possession, the
attributes of the various principle lwa, etc.

NACLA, editors. HAITI: DANGEROUS CROSSROADS.
South End Press, Boston, MA. 116 Saint
Botolph St. Boston, MA 02115. $15.00
1995. ISBN: 0-89608-506-6.

Nicholls, David. FROM DESSALINES TO DUVALIER: RACE, COLOUR
AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN HAITI.
Rutgers University Press, 1995. Reprint of this
work with a new preface.

This is certainly one of the finest histories of Haiti
ever published in English.

Schmidt, Hans. THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION OF HAIT, 1915-
1934. Rutgers, 1995. (Reprint of 1971 volume.)

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. SILENCING THE PAST: POWER AND THE
PRODUCTION OF HISTORY.
Beacon Press, Boston. 1995. $22.00.
ISBN: 0-8070-4310-9

From the dust jacket: "...Trouillot demonstrates how
power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the
making of history to silence certain voices" Uses
Haitian Revolution as a case study.

Van Laan, Nancy. MAMA ROCKS, PAPA SINGS. illustrated by
Roberta Smith. Alfred Knoph, New York, 1995
ISBN # 0-679-84016-8. $15.00.

A children's story for very young children. From the
jacket cover: "Here's a rollicking love song to
Haiti that captures all the joy and spirit,
hardship and happiness of that special place.

1994

Anvers, Paul. OF RICE AND BLOOD: A HAITIAN NOVEL.
CIDIHCA, Montreal, 1994. (Translated by Carrol Coates)
CIDIHCA
417 Saint Pierre
Montreal, Canada
Carrol Coates indicates this never actually got
published, though you might contact him directly
to see about getting a copy. Some were printed.

Basch, Linda, Nina Glick Schiller, Cristina Szanton Blanc
NATIONS UNBOUND: TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS, POSTCOLONIAL
PREDICAMENTS, AND DETERRITORIALIZED NATION-STATES.
Gordon and Breach, Langhorne, PA. 1994.
ISBN # 2-88124-607-9 hardbound.
Quite a bit about Haiti in this volume.

Carpentier, Alejo. THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD.
Noonday Press, NY, 1994, reprint of 1957
English version of a 1949 Spanish novel!
ISBN # 0-374-52197-2 $10.00

Surrealistic novel of the Haitian Revolution.

Danticat, Edwidge. BREATH, EYES, MEMORY. Soho press, 1994.
ISBN # 1-56947-005-7. Hardbound. $20.00
Soho Press, INc.
853 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

Brilliant novel about three Haitian women locked into the
controlling pressures of Haitian culture. Two of
them, mother and daughter, move to the U.S. and then
face the clash of two cultures. Written with sensitivity
and power.

d'Adesky, Anne-christine. UNDER THE BONE.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York, 1994.
ISBN # 0-374-28066-5 $23.00, hard bound.

UNDER THE BONE is worth reading, but not really for the
story. The interesting Haitian characters, the sensitive
meditations on Haitian life and struggle and the vivid and
arresting writing are worth the read.

Dunham, Katherine. ISLAND POSSESSED. (Reprint) Univ. of
Chicago Press. 1994.

Farmer, Paul. THE USES OF HAITI. ISBN # 1-56751-034-5 (paper
$14.95) ISBN # 1-56751-035-3 (hardbound: $29.95) 1994
(From the publisher: "...reveals U.S. policy to be moving in
well-worn tracks. ...brings into stark relief the myriad
forces that have long kept the majority of Haitians poor,
sick and silenced."

Common Courage Press
Box 702
Monroe, ME 04951 (800) 497-3207, visa, mc
$2.50 postage and handling.

Laferriere, Dany. DINING WITH THE DICTATOR.
Coach House Press
50 Prince Artur Ave., Suite 107
Toronto, Canada M5R 1B5
1994, ISBN # 0-88910-480-8 $11.95.

A novel, following up AROMOA OF COFFEE (1993), which
is frankly autobiographical and concerns the period
of 1971 in Haiti.

Ridgeway, James, ed. THE HAITI FILES. DECODING THE CRISIS.
Essential Books, Washington, DC, 1994. ISBN # 0-96212- 597.
paper. $10.00.

(From the jacket) Reports, original documents, secret memos,
and testimony, as well as articles by a broad range of
journalists and scholars,...(it) offers a clear, compelling,
and often disturbing picture of the issues at stake in Haiti
-- and the U.S.'s stake in those issues..."

Ros, Martin. NIGHT OF FIRE: THE BLACK NAPOLEON AND THE BATTLE
FOR HAITI. Sarpendon, NY. ISBN # 0-9627613-8-9

Schutt-Aine, Patricia. HAITI: A BASIC REFERENCE BOOK.
Librairie Au Service de la Culture
P.O. Box 162236
Miami, Fl. 33116-9998
1994, ISBN # 0-9638599-0-0 Paper.

Not a very reliable or useful volume.

1993

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand. JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 1993.
ISBN # 0-88344-845-9. $14.95.
Orbis Books
Maryknoll, NY 10545

A personal account of his life by Aristide written with
Linda M. Maloney. (I have some of these available
in hardbound for $6.00 postpaid.)

Bourguignon, Paul. THE GREENER GRASS.
Ariadne Press, Rockville, MD. 1993.
ISBN # 0-918056-05-5

Novel of a Belgian artist and writer who visits
Haiti and Peru in search of the "greener grass"
which must lie in some faraway country.

Greene, Anne. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN HAITI: POLITICAL
AND SOCIAL CHANGE. Michigan State U. Press, East
Lansing, 1993. ISBN # 0-87013-327-6 hardbound.

from the jacket cover: "The focus is most especially
on the relations between the Church as an agent for change
and the deeply entrenched classes who surrounded
the Duvalier government." (Robert Lacerte)

Laferriere, Dany. AN AROMA OF COFFEE.
Coach House Press (see address above, Laferriere,
1994). 1993. $11.95. ISBN # 0-88910-439-5.

Delightful autobiographical novel of growing up
in Petit Goave in 1960s.

Laguerre, Michel S. THE MILITARY AND SOCIETY IN HAITI.
The University of Tenn. Press, Knoxville. 1993.
ISBN # 0-87049-773-1 hardbound.

Moore, Brian. NO OTHER LIFE. Doubleday, NY., 1993.
ISBN # 0-385-41515-x, hardbound, $21.00.

A novel set in the time of Aristide's presidency.

Shacochis, Bob. SWIMMING IN THE VOLCANO.
Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN # 0-14-02.3658-0 (paper)
0-684-19260-8 (hard cover) $11.95 paper.

1992

Desmangles, Leslie G. THE FACES OF THE GODS. VODOU AND ROMAN
CATHOLICISM IN HAITI. Univ. of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Hill, 1992. ISBN # 0-8078-2059-8,
hardbound and ISBN # 0-8078-4393-8, paper.

A study of the interrelationship of Haitian Voodoo
and Roman Catholicisim.

Farmer, Paul. AIDS AND ACCUSATION: HAITI AND THE GEOGRAPHY
OF BLAME. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. 1992.
ISBN # 0-520-07701-6.

A careful and scholarly analysis of the situation and origins
of AIDS in Haiti. Farmer argues that Haiti is not one of the
originating areas of AIDS, and that the
depiction of Haiti as an AIDS capital is mistaken.

HAITI: THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE. Callaloo, vol 15, nos.
2 and 3 (2 vols.) 1992.

Lawless, Robert. HAITI'S BAD PRESS. Schenkman Press, Vt.
ISBN # 0-87047-060-4, hardbound, and ISBN #
0-87047-061-2, paper, 1992
Schenkman Books, Inc.
118 Main St.
Rochester, VT 05767

An important book which analyses and documents the
long standing bias in the world press against the
nation of Haiti.

Plummer, Brenda Gayle. HAITI AND THE UNITED STATES: THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT. Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens,
1992. ISBN # 0-8203-1422-6 (hard bound) ISBN #
0-8203-1423-4 (paper back).

Prose, Francine. PRIMITIVE PEOPLE. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY,
1992. ISNB # 0-374-23722-0, hardbound. $20.00

A novel that slips in and out of Haiti but is mainly
situated in the U.S.

Rodman, Selden and Carole Cleaver. SPIRITS OF THE NIGHT: THE VAUDUN
GODS OF HAITI. Spring Publications, 1992.
ISBN#0-88214-354-9, paper. $16.00
Spring Publications
P.O. Box 222069
Dallas, TX 75222

An intriguing slim little volume which is excellent in
what it does, it just doesn't do enough.

Rouse, Irving. THE TAINOS: RISE AND DECLINE OF THE PEOPLE
WHO GREETED COLUMBUS.
Yale U. Press, New Haven. 1992.
ISBN # 0-300-05181-6 (hardbound) 0-300-05696-6 (paper)

Temple, Frances. TASTE OF SALT. A STORY OF MODERN HAITI.
Orchard Books, NY, 1992. ISBN # 0-531-05459-4, hard bound.
Orchard Books
95 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016

A touching novel of two young Aristide supporters, struggling
for life, meaning and love in Haiti during the early days of
Aristide's presidency.

Thomson, Ian. BONJOUR BLANC. A JOURNEY THROUGH HAITI.
Hutchinson, London. 1992. ISBN # 0-09-177078-5.
16.99 British pounds. Hardbound.

A delightful and insightful insight into Haiti. Sort of in the
genre of informed travel literature.

Venzon, Anne Cipriano, ed. GENERAL SMEDLEY DARLINGTON BUTLER: THE
LETTERS OF A LEATHERNECK, 1898-1931.
(esp. p.149-202. Chief of Police in Haiti).
Prager, New York, 1992. ISBN # 0-275-94141-8 hardbound.

Letters from the 1st occupation of Haiti.

1991

Bentivegna, Joseph F. THE NEGLECTED AND ABUSED. A PHYSICIAN'S YEAR
IN HAITI. 1991. ISBN # 0-962-60010-5. Single copy $12.95 +
$1.50 postage. Reductions for multiple copies.
Michelle Publishing Co,
2317 Silas Deane Highway
Rocky Hill, Ct. 06067 (203) 721-8800

A moving account of an American physician's year working
with Mother Teresa's sisters doing service work in Haiti.
Along the way Bentivegna does an excellent job of looking
at the situation of health care, or rather the lack of it,
in Haiti today.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. MAMA LOLA: A VODOU PRIESTESS IN BROOKLYN.
Univ. of California Press. Berkeley, 1991.
ISBN # 0-520-07073-9 (hardbound) also in paper.

Although set in Brooklyn, New York, this is an excellent book
about Haitian Voodoo. It gives the feeling tone and insiders
perspective to Voodoo as a living religion.

Lewis, Norman. TO RUN ACROSS THE SEA. Vintage, London, 1991
ISBN # 0-09-99775700, paper, 5.00 British pounds.

A book of travel short stories with two delightful tales
from Haiti.

1990
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand. IN THE PARISH OF THE POOR.
Orbis Books, 1990.

A theological treatment of Haiti within the
tradition of Liberation Theology. Some of
Aristide's most revolutionary pronouncements.

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. HAITI: THE BREACHED CITADEL.
Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 1990. ISBN # 0-8133-7172-4.

Courlander, Harold. THE BORDEAUX NARRATIVE. Univ. of New
Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM. 1990. 0-8263-0915-1.

A marvelous novel about the folk traditions and fantastical
entities that people the world of Haitian peasants.

Degand, Yolande. ALWAYS COMES THE MORNING. Vintage Press, NY,
1990. ISBN # 0-533-08533-0, hardbound, $15.95.

A novel set in Haiti.

Depestre, Rene. THE FESTIVAL OF THE GREASY POLE.
translation and introduction by Carrol F. Coates
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1990.
(original French version, 1979)
ISBN 0-8139-1281-4 (hard bound) O-8139-1282-2 (paper)

Wonderful novel of the Papa Doc era.

Fick, Carolyn. THE MAKING OF HAITI. THE SAINT DOMINGUE REVOLUTION
FROM BELOW. Univ. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1990

Lawless, Robert. HAITI: A RESEARCH HANDBOOK.
Garland Publishing, New York. 1990.
ISBN: 0-8240-6543-3.

An indespensible tool. Lists 2040 entries, arranged
by subject and with a general authors' index.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. HAITI STATE AGAINST NATION: THE
ORIGINS AND LEGACY OF DUVALIERISM. Monthly Review Press,
NY, 1990. $12.00 paper. ISBN # 0-85345-756-5.

PRIOR TO 1990, BUT LIKELY IN PRINT

Abbott, Elizabeth. HAITI: THE DUVALIERS AND THEIR LEGACY.
McGraw Hill, NY, 1988. ISBN # 0-07-046029-9.

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. IN THE SHADOW OF POWERS. DANTES
BELLEGARDE IN HAITIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT. Humanities Press
International, Atlantic Highlands, NJ. 1985.
ISBN # 0-391-03214-3, hardbound, $39.50.

Davis, Wade. PASSAGE OF DARKNESS. THE ETHNOBIOLOGY OF THE
HAITIAN ZOMBIE. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill, 1988. ISBN # 0-8078-1776-7 (hard bound)
ISBN # 0-807804210-9 (paperback).

An intriguing hunt for the alleged causes of zombification.
Some extremely interesting material of the secret societies
of Haiti.

Davis, Wade. THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW. Simon and Schuster, NY.
1985. ISBN # 0-671-50247-6. (hardbound)
also available in paper.

A popularized Indiana Jones version of the more
scholarly book cited above. Certainly more entertaining
reading than Passage, but less scholarly.

Deren, Maya. DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI
McPherson and Co. 1983 reprint of 1953 book.

Dunham, Katherine. DANCES OF HAITI. (Reprint) By Center
For Afro-American Studies, Univ. of Cal., Los Angeles.
ISBN # 0-934934-17-7 (hard bound) ISBN # 0-934934-11-8
(paper back).

Dupuy, Alex. HAITI IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: CLASS, RACE AND
UNDERDEVELOPMENT SINCE 1700. Westview Press, Boulder,
CO. 1989.
ISBN # 0-8133-7348-4.

Fass, Simon. POLITICAL ECONOMY IN HAITI: THE DRAMA
OF SURVIVAL.
New Brunswick, NY. Transaction Press, 1988.

Hunt, Alfred. N. HAITI'S INFLUENCE ON ANTEBELLUM AMERICA.
SLUMBERING VOLCANO IN THE CARIBBEAN. Louisiana State
Univ. Press, Baton Rouge. 1988. ISBN # 0-8071-1370-0.

Hurston, Zora Neale. TELL MY HORSE (Reprint, original,
1938). Harper and Row, New York. ISBN # 0-06-091649-4.

Book on Voodoo and life in Haiti. The author has become
somewhat of a folk hero. The book is impressionistic and
not always accurate.

James, C.L.R. THE BLACK JACOBINS. Vintage books, NY, 1963.
I know there is a paper back of this still in print,
but it may be by Monthly Review Press and not Vintage.

This is a classic book on the Haitian Revolution by an
excellent Marxian scholar.

Metraux, Alfred. VOODOO IN HAITI. [Reprint] (Trans. by Hugo
Charteris, with new intro by Sidney Mintz.) Schocken
Books, NY, 1972.

This is one of the best books every written on Haitian
Voodoo.

Plummer, Brenda Gayle. HAITI AND THE GREAT POWERS, 1902-1915.
Louisiana State U. Press, Baton Rouge. 1988.
ISBN # 0-8071-1409-X.

This is an excellent historical treatment of an important
period of gunboat diplomacy prior to the first U.S. occupation.

Rainwater, MarVenea L. SLOW OF HEART. Latitudes Press, 1988.
ISBN # 0-941179-19-2. paper, $10.00.
Latitudes Press
P.O. Box 613
Mansfield, TX 76063 (817) 477-1777.

A short novel of Haiti.

Rigaud, Milo. SECRETS OF VOODOO. (reprint, original published in 1969.)
City Lights Books, San Francisco. ISBN # 0-87286-171-6. $9.95.

Wilentz, Amy. THE RAINY SEASON: HAITI SINCE DUVALIER.
Simon and Schuster, NY, 1989. ISBN # 0-671-64186-7.

Wolkstein, Diane. THE MAGIC ORANGE TREE AND OTHER HAITIAN
FOLKTALES.
Schocken Books, NY, with 1989 Random House printing.