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Author Déralciné, Vilmond Joegodson, 1983- author

Title Rocks in the water, rocks in the sun : a memoir from the heart of Haiti / Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné and Paul Jackson
Published Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2015]
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Series Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters
Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun: A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti / Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné, Paul Jackson -- Commentary: An Essay on Haitian Politics and History / Paul Jackson -- Glossary of Haitian Terms -- Pawol Granmoun/Haitian Sayings -- Chants
Summary "When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier's reign, were liberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control of their lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands of other peasants trying to adjust to urban life, Joegodson and his family sought work and a means of survival. But all they found was low-waged assembly plant jobs of the sort to which the repressive Duvalier regime had opened Haiti's doors--the combination of flexible capital and cheap labour too attractive to multinational manufacturers to be overlooked. With the death of his mother, Joegodson was placed in his uncle's care, and so began a childhood of starvation, endless labour, and abuse. In honest, reflective prose, Joegodson--now a father himself--allows us to walk in the ditches of Cité Soleil, to hide from the macoutes under the bed, to feel the ache of an empty stomach. But, most importantly, he provides an account of life in Haiti from a perspective that is rarely heard. Free of sentimentality and hackneyed clichés, his narrative explores the spirituality of Vodou, Catholicism, and Protestantism, describes the harrowing day of the 2010 earthquake and its aftermath, and illustrates the inner workings of MINUSTAH. Written with Canadian historian Paul Jackson--Joegodson telling his story in Creole, Jackson translating, the two of them then reviewing and reworking--the memoir is a true collaboration, the struggle of two people from different lands and vastly different circumstances to arrive at a place of mutual understanding. In the process, they have given us an unforgettable account of a country determined to survive, and on its own terms."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Text in English with glossary of Haitian terms and Haitian sayings; translated from the spoken Creole
Online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed May 1, 2015)
Subject Déralciné, Vilmond Joegodson, 1983-
Déralciné, Vilmond Joegodson, 1983- -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Déralciné, Vilmond Joegodson, 1983- fast
Subject Fathers -- Haiti -- Port-au-Prince -- Biography
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Childhood and youth of a person
Economic history
Fathers
Religion
Social conditions
SUBJECT Haiti -- History -- 1986- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003341
Haiti -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058370
Haiti -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058348
Haiti -- Religion
Haiti -- Biography
Subject Haiti
Haiti -- Port-au-Prince
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Jackson, Paul, 1955- author, translator
ISBN 9781771990127
1771990120
9781771990134
1771990139
Other Titles Memoir from the heart of Haiti