Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier's reign, were liberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control of their lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands of other peasants trying to adjust to urban life, Joegodson and his family sought work and a means of survival. But all they found was low-waged assembly plant jobs of the sort to which the repressive Duvalier regime had opened Haiti's doors-the combination…
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Weitere Autoren: Déralciné, Vilmond Joegodson
- ISBN: 978-1-77199-013-4
- EAN: 9781771990134
- Produktnummer: 27961207
- Verlag: Au Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 390 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 775 KB
Über den Autor
Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné is a furniture maker and writer who lives in Canaan, Haiti. Paul Jackson earned his PhD in history from Queen's University. His published work includes One of the Boys (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004). Together, Joegodson and Paul maintain a blog at https://heartofhaiti.wordpress.com/posts/.
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