HAITI:   BOOK REVIEWS

These are mainly by Bob Corbett but other reviewers are identified at the beginning of reviews.

See Corbett's "Reading" page for many reviews of books that are not related to Haiti.

• Abbott, Elizabeth
  Haiti: The Duvaliers and their Legacy

• Alexis, Gerald
  Peintres Haitiens
  Reviewed by LeGrace Benson

• Alexis, Jacques Stephen
  
  • In The Flicker of an Eyelid
  • General Sun, My Brother

• Anvers, Paul
  Of Rice and Blood

• Apollon, Marlene Rigaud
  Haiti Trivia and Haitian Art Trivia

• Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
  • Autobiography
  • Dignity
  • In the Parish of the Poor

• Arthur,Charles
  Haiti: A Guide To The People, Politics and Culture

• Becker, Stephen
  A Rendezvous in Haiti

• Bell, Madison Smartt
  
  • All Souls' Rising
  • Master of the Crossroads
  • Master of the Crossroads A review by Ellen Canner in the Miami Herald

• Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick
  The Breached Citadel

• Bentivegna, Joseph F.
  
  • The Neglected and Abused Reviewed by Robert Lawless
  • The Neglected and Abused Reviewed by Bob Corbett

• Bontemps, Arna and
  
• Hughes, Langston
  Popo and Fifina

• Bordes, Ary and
  
• Couture, Andrea
  For the People For a Change

• Bradley, Marion Zimmer
  Drums of Darkness

• Brodwin, Paul
  Medicine and Morality in Haiti

• Brown, Gordon Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution

• Brown, Karen McCarthy
  Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

• Brown, Karen McCarthy
  
  • Tracing the Spirits Reviewed by Bob Corbett
  • Tracing the Spirits Reviewed by Robert Lawless

• Buch, Hans Christoph
  The Wedding at Port-au-Prince

• Carpentier, Alejo
  Kingdom of this World

• Cave, Hugh B.
  The Evil and the Lower Deep

• Children's books
  Reviews of several children's books

• Condit, Erin
  Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier

• Cooper, Anna Julia
  Slavery and the French Revolution

• Couture, Andrea
  For the People For a Change

• D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
  Under the Bone

• Dalembert, Louis-Philippe
  The Time of Exile  Review of a French novel as yet untranslated. Reviewed by Abdourahman A. Waberi

• Danticat, Edwidge
  
  • Breath, Eyes, Memory
  • The Farming of Bones
  • The Farming of Bones Review from Publishers Weekly
  • Krik?   Krak!
  • The Butterfly's Way: Voices From The Haitian Diaspora in the United States.
  • The Dew Breaker

• Dash, J. Michael
  
  • Haiti and the U.S.
  • Culture and Customs of Haiti

• Davis, Wade
  
  • Passage of Darkness
  • Reviews of: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie;   Passage of Darkness;   and Serpent and the Rainbow reviewed by Robert Lawless
  • Serpent and the Rainbow

• Dayan, Joan
  Haiti, History and the Gods

• Degand, Yolande
  Always Comes the Morning

• Depestre, Rene
  Festival of the Greasy Pole

• DesMangles, Leslie G.
  Face of the Gods

• Desquiron, Lilas
  Reflections of Loko Miwa

• Dohrman, Richard
  Cross of Baron Samedi

• Dupuy, Alex
  
  • Haiti in the New World Order
  • Haiti in the World Economy Since 1700
  • Notes taken while reading Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700

• Farmer, Paul
  
  • Aids and Accusation
  • The Uses of Haiti
  • The Uses of Haiti reviewed by Robert Lawless

• Fass, Simon
  
  • The Political Economy in Haiti
  • Notes taken while reading The Political Economy in Haiti

• Fatton, Robert
  Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy

• Fick, Carolyn
  The Making of Haiti

• Galvan, Manuel de Jesus.
  The Cross and the Sword

• Gibbons, Elizabeth D.
  Sanctions in Haiti:   Human Rights and Democracy Under Assault

• Gillespie, C. Richard.
  Papa Toussaint

• Goff, Stan.
  Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti
  Review by Madison Smartt Bell.

• Gold, Herbert
  Best Nightmare on Earth

• Gonzalez, Juan
  Roll Down Your Windows

• Gordon, Leah
  The Book of Vodou: Charms and Rituals to Empower Your Life

• Greene, Anne
  The Catholic Church in Haiti

• Griffiths, John
  Take A Trip To Haiti

• Guy, Rosa
  The Sun, The Sea, A Touch of Wind

• Hassal, Mary
  Secret History

• Harris, J. Dennis
  
• Holly, James Theodore
  Black Separatism in the Caribbean
  Notes on Black Separatism in the Caribbean

• Heurtelou, Maude
  Lafami Bonplezi
  AND
  Sezisman! Pou Lafanmi Bonplezi

• Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas
  Toussaint L'Ouverture

• Hoffmann, Leon-Francois
  
  • Essays on Haitian Literature
    
  • Haitian Fiction Revisited

• Howard, Thomas Phipps
  Haitian Journal 1796-98

• Hughes, Langston and
  
• Bontemps, Arna
  Popo and Fifina

• Hyppolite, Joanne
  Seth and Samona

• Joseph, Figaro, Joanne
  THE POWER OF MOVEMENT IN POLITICAL TRANSITIONS: HAITI UNDER THE LAVALAS, 1989 - 1991

• Johnson, Gyneth
  How The Donkeys Came To Haiti and Other Tales

• Kedar, Daniel
  Haiti: Reflections

• Laferriere, Dany
  Two Reviews:  An Aroma of Coffee  and Dining with the Dictator

• Laguerre, Michel
  
  • Military and Society
  • Voodoo and Politics

• Lawless, Robert
  
  • A Research Handbook
  • Haiti's Bad Press

• Lawyers Committee For Human Rights
  Paper Laws, Steel Bayonets

• Lieske, Bob
  View from the Other Side

• Madsen, David
  Vodoun

• Maguire, Robert, et al.
  Haiti Held Hostage: International Responses to the Quest for Nationhood: 1986-1996.
  A review by Robert Lawless

• Malone, David
  Security Council Decision-making: The Case of Haiti, 1990-1997

• Marcelin, Pierre and Philippe Thoby Marcelin
  Beast of the Haitian Hills

• Matibag, Eugenio
  Haiti-Dominican Counterpoint: Nationa, Race, and State on Hispaniola

• Mellon, Gwen Grant
  My Road to Deschapelles

• Metellus, Jean
  The Vortex Family

• Michel, George
  Charlemagne Peralte and the First American Occupation of Haiti

• Miller, Frances
  "Tante": The Daring Decades

• Montero, Mayra
  
  • In the Palm of Darkness Reviewed by Bob Corbett
  • In the Palm of Darkness Second Review
  • The Red of His Shadow

• Morand, Paul
  Black Magic

• Nicholls, David
  From Dessalines to Duvalier

• Orem, Wiliam.
  Zonbi, You My Love

• Pachonski, Jan and
      Wilson, Reuel K.
  Poland's Caribbean Tragedy

• Pils, Richard and Winslow
  The Caribbean Foul Ball Caper

• Perusse, Ronald I.
  Haitian Democracy Restored

• Placide, Jaida
  Fresh Girl

• Plummer, Brenda Gayle
  
  • Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment
  • Notes taken when reading, Haiti and the Great Powers

• Prose, Francine
  Primitive People

• Rahill, Guitele Jeudy
  Violated

• Rey, Terry
  Our Lady of Class Struggle  Reviewed by LeGrace Benson.

• Ridgeway, James
  The Haiti Files

• Rodman, Maia (illus. by Wilson Bigaud)
  Market Day for Ti Andre

• Roumain, Jacques
  When the Tom-Tom Beats

• Salinger, Steven D.
  White Darkness

• Shacochis, Bob
  The Immaculate Invasion
  A review by Robert Lawless

• Schutt-Aine, Patricia
  A Basic Reference Handbook

• Schutt-Aine, Patricia
  A Basic Reference Handbook

• Shaw, Marian
  Land of the Hunchbacks

• Smith, Jennie M.
  When The Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti

• Stein, Robert Louis
  Leger Felicite Sonthonax

• Tallant, Robert
  Voodoo in New Orleans

• Tarry, Ellen
  The Other Toussaint

• Telemaque, Eleanor Wong
  Haiti Through Its Holidays

• Temple, Frances
  
  • Taste of Salt
  • Tonight by Sea

• Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
  
  • Silencing the Past
  • Haiti: State Against Nation   Reviewed by Robert Lawless

• Turnbull, Wally R.
  Hidden Meanings: Truth and Secret in Haiti's Creole Proverbs

• Weddle, Ken
  Haiti ...... In Pictures

• Williamson, Charles T.
  The U.S. Naval Mission to Haiti, 1959-1963
  A review by Robert Lawless.

• Wilson, Reuel K. and Pachonski, Jan
  Poland's Caribbean Tragedy

• Wolkstein, Diane
  Two Reviews: Bouki Dances the Kokioko: A Comic Tale From Haiti and The Magic Organge Tree and Other Haitian Folktalkes

• Wucker, Michele
  Why the Cocks Fight:   Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola

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