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Farewell, Fred Voodoo : a letter from Haiti / Amy Wilentz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilentz, Amy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilentz, Amy.
- Travel.
- Haiti--History.
- Haiti.
- History.
- Haiti--Description and travel.
- Haiti--Foreign relations--United States.
- International relations.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Haiti.
- Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
- Wilentz, Amy--Travel--Haiti.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 329 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- Summary:
- Describes the author's long and painful relationship with Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake, tracing the country's turbulent history and its status as a symbol of human rights activism and social transformation.
- Contents:
- 1 Toussaint Camp 25
- 2 White Flight 41
- 3 Traumatic Amputation 51
- 4 Black Rouges Tour: I 69
- 5 Zombies of the World 74
- 6 Building Back Better 99
- 7 Citizen Haiti 120
- 8 Golf-Course Camp 139
- 9 Missionary Style 145
- 10 Spaghetti Rounds 159
- 11 Werewolves in the Camps 167
- 12 Black Rouge's Tour: II 194
- 13 The Violent-Sex Cure 202
- 14 Pact with the Devil 213
- 15 Aristide's Citadel 227
- 16 Plastic Wheelchairs 246
- 17 Market of Dreams 253
- 18 The Value of Talk 260
- 19 Ghosts by Daylight 279
- 20 Weslandia 291.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451643978
- 1451643977
- OCLC:
- 788290141
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