Bøger om Haiti

Als Entwicklungshelfer jahrelang in verschiedenen tropischen Ländern u.a. auch in der Dominikanischen Republik unterwegs. Einen Teil seiner Eindrücke schreibt er in diesem Werk nieder.Als promovierter Botaniker lässt er den geneigten Leser teilnehmen an einer Reihe von Streifzügen, wo eine Vielzahl von unterschiedlichen Landschaftselementen und ihrer arten- und formenreichen Flora beschrieben werden.

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on liberation-a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers-come to such a precipice?In Aid State, Jake Johnston, a researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, reveals how long-standing US and European capitalist goals ensnared and re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it. To the global West, Haiti has always been a place where labor is cheap, politicians are compliant, and profits are to be made. Over the course of nearly 100 years, the US has sought to control Haiti and its people with occupying police, military, and euphemistically-called peacekeeping forces, as well as hand-picked leaders meant to quell uprisings and protect corporate interests. Earthquakes and hurricanes only further devastated a state already decimated by the aid industrial complex. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting in Haiti and interviews with politicians in the US and Haiti, independent aid contractors, UN officials, and Haitians who struggle for their lives, homes, and families, Aid State is a conscience-searing book of witness.

Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The demarcation between property and power, and the changes in family life, religious practices, and socio-economic relations are explored, as well as the preoccupation with violence and terror, both of which were conspicuous aspects of the revolution. Simultaneous movements in England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, and Poland-Lithuania are also discussed. The volume ends with the Haitian Revolution and its impact on neighboring countries, revealing how the revolution was comprised of several smaller revolutions, and how, once the independent black State of Haiti was established, an effort was made to fulfill the promises of freedom and equality.

The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery, outlaw color prejudice, and forbid colonialism, Haitians established their nation in a hostile Atlantic World. Slavery was ubiquitous throughout the rest of the Americas and foreign nations and empires repeatedly attacked Haitian sovereignty. Yet Haitian writers and politicians successfully defended their independence while planting the ideological roots of egalitarian statehood. In Awakening the Ashes, Marlene L. Daut situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took center stage in the Age of Revolutions. While modern understandings of freedom and equality are often linked to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the US Declaration of Independence, Daut argues that the more immediate reference should be to what she calls the 1804 Principle that no human being should ever again be colonized or enslaved, an idea promulgated by the Haitians who, against all odds, upended French empire.

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

This book examines disability, diversity and schooling exclusion in Haiti, demonstrating how the educational relationships built and practiced in school influence the perceptions of people with disabilities, with respect to both singular contexts and pedagogical practices.

How did a Caribbean child, born into plantation slavery, come to defeat Napoleon's armies in battle and crown himself king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the story of Henry Christophe: one of the most remarkable, yet least known, figures from the Age of Revolution.

After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism.

Blå mærker, hudafskrabninger, mørke pletter af sammenpresset støv på hendes hvide natkjole. Der er ingen steder at gemme sig. Ikke længere. Byen står i flammer. Rose står midt i flammerne. I ly af nattens mørke finder de hende i køkkenet. De ankommer i deres nattøj, og lader som om de er hjemme. Stirrer på hende. Altopslugende. Der er øjeblikke, hvor hun ville ønske, at hun kunne kravle ud af hudens hylster, når de ubudne gæster efterlader sandkorn, som skurrer mellem nerveenderne og huden.En søgen efter identitet og tilhørsforhold på tværs af geografi og hudfarve, tro og mistro. På uforglemmelig og kraftfuld vis optrævler Myriam J. A. Chancy en labyrintisk familietragedie, der udspiller sig over to generationer, to kontinenter og to århundreder. Baggrunden er et Haiti i flammer i kølvandet på det blodige coup d’état i 2004 og under det brutale Duvalier-regime. ”Bogens saftige prosa efterlader læseren beruset og forslået.” The Caribbean Review of Books Vinder af The Gyanan Prize for Best Fiction, Caribbean Award 2010 Shortlistet til OCM Bocas Prize (Trinidad) 2011

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Ved første øjekast ligner serien en telefonkrusedulle, der har vokset over sine bredder, men snart bliver man grebet af de tyste billeder, der rummer så meget grusomhed – og så meget blodrød farve, der synes at sile ned over siderne!”– Berlingske♥♥♥♥♥ "Et fuldgyldigt dramatisk forløb om slavebarnets kamp for livet uden et ord, men i stedet med synsvinkler og detaljer sikkert placeret i et forløb af flotte, på én gang dybdedunkle og knivskarpt blodige billedkompositioner."– Politiken★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Sikke en debut: Et blodigt hævnepos på 112 sider, tegnet udelukkende med rød kuglepen og sort tusch til opstregning. Det har en højst foruroligende virkning, næsten som om siderne reelt er tegnet med det blod, der også strømmer gennem den højdramatiske historie om det første slaveoprør på Haiti, som siden skulle brede sig og ende med tropeøens selvstændighed som stat, ledet og befolket af tidligere slaver.Hele den voldsomme fortælling er fuldkommen ordløs, billedet fortæller alt – filmisk flytter synsvinklen sig suverænt rundt og bruger alle tænkelige positioner og indstillinger med en stærk, dynamisk effekt.…Det er flot og foruroligende intenst fortalt, rødt i rødt, tætte, mættede albumsider, hvor skikkelser, landskaber, bygninger, kroppe og ansigter modelleres frem med lange, tålmodige, omhyggelige skraveringer med den røde kuglepen.Et imponerende arbejde – og en stærk og sælsom effekt, helt i tråd med den afrikanske voodoo-magi, der gennemstrømmer billedværkets baggrund som en truende, tiltagende understrøm. Det er flot.”– Nordjyske