Research Catalog

Title

Haïti-Haitii? : philosophical reflections for mental decolonization / by Jean-Bertrand Aristide ; translated by Mildred Aristide.

Author

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Aristide, Mildred, 1962-

Description

vi, 89 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Literary collections
• Haiti > Literary collections
• Haiti > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Poetry

Note

• A collection of poetry, prose, proverbs, and aphorisms.

Language (note)

• In Kreyol, with English translations.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part One -- Introduction 9 -- After 206 years of independence 14 -- Reflections 23 -- Victims and butchers 23 -- Operation kidnapping 24 -- The Black Code 27 -- Reflections: Articles of the Black Code 27 -- Tribulations and tribulations 27 -- The weapon of religion 28 -- There is religion and there is religion 29 -- Religion of cadavers or Catholicism? 31 -- Religion as bait 32 -- Hypocritical Sunday 33 -- A small bandage for a metastatic cancer 34 -- Paradise for men, hell for women 35 -- A trap in hell 36 -- For the white colonist every person is not a human being 37 -- A picometer vs. a master 38 -- It is a crime. Period 38 -- Different kinds of scissors 39 -- Sham baptism, sham recompense 40 -- Neither weapons nor big sticks, but 40 -- Divide to subjugate 42 -- Poetry 42 -- 10 cent fine! 43 -- Bitter as wormwood 43 -- Sugar cane spoils twins 44 -- Control 45 -- And? And nothing! 46 -- Legitimate self-defense 47 -- Sugar cane is our blood 48 -- Learn to understand 49 -- The skin of our backs, backsides, breasts, bodies 50 -- Stop telling lies! 51 -- Illness 52 -- Tell me about that brother! 53 -- What, you think that I don't see! 54 -- That day! Ahh! 56 -- If anyone is to be branded 59 -- The scissors of legitimate self-defense 60 -- Slaves are furniture! 62 -- Mental slave (No. 1) 63 -- Mental slave (No. 2) 66 -- Kasumba ya kikoloni or mental slave (No. 3) 67 -- Part Two -- Kama Haiti? 73.

ISBN

• 9781612050539 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1612050530 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781612050546 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1612050549 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011021279

OCLC

• 714715771
• SCSB-12626808

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library