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What is haiti?

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What is haiti?

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” It is surprising that over two hundred years after Haiti became independent that such a question could still be asked. A mere glance at the title of their book tells why explaining Haiti has been so difficult for so many. For the Heinls the explanation is evident, it is about blood —blood spilt, bloody mindedness and even the curse of blood. Despite the book’s subtitle which purports to tell “The Story of the Haitian People” no ordinary story is being told but one that presents Haiti as a peculiar site of grotesque cruelty in the Americas. The title “written in blood” is a tendentious reading of Haitian history as, for the Heinls, Haiti is unique as a country where history repeats itself in the most disturbingly savage way imaginable. Here is how they answer their own question. Haiti is the eldest daughter of France and Africa. […] It is a place of beauty, romance, mystery, kindness, humor, selfishness, betrayal, cruelty, bloodshed, hunger and poverty. It is a closed and withdrawn

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