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Columbus claimed the territories in the name of Spain and called the island Hispaniola. Soon, the Spaniards realized that they were in the middle of a gold mine, literally. They began the systematic slaughter of the Indians in order to steal their riches, and quickly enslaved the survivors. Word spread out fast and soon the British and the French followed.
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HAITIAN LITTERATURE A Hidden Haitian World Massacre River
by René Philoctète, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale, with a preface by Edwidge Danticat and an introduction by Lyonel Trouillot / New Directions, 238 pp., $22.95; $13.95 (paper) The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat / Penguin, 312 pp., $14.00 (paper) Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot, translated from the French and with an introduction by Linda Coverdale / University of Nebraska Press, 115 pp., $45.00; $16.95 (paper) Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale / University of Nebraska Press, 161 pp., $40.00; $20.00 (paper) Anthologie secrète by Carl Brouard / Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 131 pp., CAN$20.00 The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier, translated from the French by Harriet de Onìs / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 180 pp., $13.00 (paper) Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat / Vintage, 224 pp., $12.95 (paper) The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat / Vintage, 244 pp., $13.95 (paper) Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat / Knopf, 272 pp., $23.95 Bicentenaire by Lyonel Trouillot / Paris: Actes Sud, 150 pp., ?13.90 (paper) Thérèse en mille morceaux by Lyonel Trouillot / Paris: Actes Sud, 110 pp., ?13.57 (paper) |
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Haitian History
