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ROCKS IN THE WATER, ROCKS IN THE SUN
A MEMOIR FROM THE HEART OF HAITI |
| By: |
Paul Jackson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£20.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1771990112 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781771990110 |
| Publisher: |
AU PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 December, 2014 |
| Series: |
Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
A poor man's first-hand account of the punishing realities of daily life in Haiti from the final years of the Duvalier dictatorship to the year following the 2010 earthquake. |
| Synopsis: |
When Joegodson Deralcine was still a small child, his parents leftrural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince.As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorshipexited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier's reign, wereliberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control oftheir lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands of other peasantstrying to adjust to urban life, Joegodson and his family sought workand a means of survival. But all they found was low-waged assemblyplant jobs of the sort to which the repressive Duvalier regime hadopened Haiti's doors-the combination of flexible capitaland cheap labour too attractive to multinational manufacturers to beoverlooked. With the death of his mother, Joegodson was placed in hisuncle's care, and so began a childhood of starvation, endlesslabour, and abuse.In honest, reflective prose, Joegodson-now a fatherhimself- allows us to walk in the ditches of Cite Soleil, to hidefrom the macoutes under the bed, to feel the ache of an emptystomach. But, most importantly, he provides an account of life in Haitifrom a perspective that is rarely heard. Free of sentimentality andhackneyed cliches, his narrative explores the spirituality of Vodou,Catholicism, and Protestantism, describes the harrowing day of the 2010earthquake and its aftermath, and illustrates the inner workings ofMINUSTAH. Written with Canadian historian Paul Jackson-Joegodsontelling his story in Creole, Jackson translating, the two of them thenreviewing and reworking-the memoir is a true collaboration, thestruggle of two people from different lands and vastly differentcircumstances to arrive at a place of mutual understanding. In theprocess, they have given us an unforgettable account of a countrydetermined to survive, and on its own terms.. |
| Illustrations: |
3 b&w photos |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
AU Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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