Research Catalog
Amy Wilentz audio and moving image collection.
- Title
- Amy Wilentz audio and moving image collection.
- Author
- Wilentz, Amy
- Publication
- [1999]
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid for the collection
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Wilentz 1999-23 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Description
- 5 videocassettes
- 1 audiocassette
- Summary
- The collection consists of 1 audio recording and 5 moving image recordings related to the government and politics of Haiti.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Amy Wilentz is an American journalist and writer who has written extensively on Haiti. Wilentz has followed events in Haiti for many years, from the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, to the 2010 earthquake, and the death of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 2014. The collection is related to her research on Haiti. Wilentz received a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, as well as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. She has also authored The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier (1990), Martyrs' Crossing (2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). Since 2006, she has been a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches in the Literary Journalism program.
- Linking Entry (note)
- See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for Amy Wilentz Haiti material, 1986-1994. Sc MG 664.
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Wilentz 1999-23
- OCLC
- 1164806745
- Author
- Wilentz, Amy, collector.
- Title
- Amy Wilentz audio and moving image collection.
- Publisher
- [1999]
- Biography
- Amy Wilentz is an American journalist and writer who has written extensively on Haiti. Wilentz has followed events in Haiti for many years, from the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, to the 2010 earthquake, and the death of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 2014. The collection is related to her research on Haiti. Wilentz received a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, as well as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. She has also authored The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier (1990), Martyrs' Crossing (2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). Since 2006, she has been a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches in the Literary Journalism program.
- Linking Entry
- See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for Amy Wilentz Haiti material, 1986-1994. Sc MG 664.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Wilentz 1999-23