Literature & Book Reviews
Haiti has a wonderfully rich tradition of fiction and non-fiction literature. Below we recommend our favourite books on its history, politics, art, culture, vodou and fiction.
Please do contact us at [email protected] if you have suggestions you would like to add to this list.
Articles featuring Literature on Haiti
Haiti in Focus: a Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
Haiti in Focus: a Guide to the People, Politics and Culture by Charles Arthur Published by Interlink Books, New York
Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance
Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell Published by Cornell University Press Beverly Bell’s
Major Writer-Artist Frankétienne in Scotland, 17-21 March 2014
Major Writer-Artist Frankétienne in Scotland, 17-21 March 2014 Friday 21 March, Glasgow: Performance of Chaophonies; Tuesday 18 March, Edinburgh: Meet
Book of Vodou
Book of Vodou by Leah Gordon Published by Barron’s Educational Series. ISBN 0-7641-5249-1 Price £10.50 ‘The Book of Vodou’ is
New Book, Old Paul Farmer: Discuss
New Book, Old Paul Farmer: Discuss Anyone who can draw six hundred people paying $30.00 a head to a Washington
The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference 2013
The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference, Liverpool To mark seventy-five years of C.L.R. James’s pioneering anticolonial classic The Black
Beverly Bell on Disaster Capitalism in Haiti
Beverly Bell on Disaster Capitalism in Haiti. HSG from George Washington University, Washington DC, 11-04-2011 To Foggy Bottom, the appropriately
Danticat, Edwidge
Danticat, Edwidge. Author – Born in Port-au-Prince in 1969, Danticat was raised by an aunt when her parents emigrated to
Quinn and Sutton Launch Politics and Power in Haiti
Politics and Power in Haiti, edited by Haiti Support Group’s very own Kate Quinn and Paul Sutton Date: 25th April 2013,