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Gindine, Yvette – Caribbean Quarterly, 1975
Reviews and discusses the novels of three satirical novelists who dared to expose the political anarchy ravaging their own society. Historically, satire remains inseparable from the birth of the Haitian novel. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Authors, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Mood

Meisenhelder, Susan – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1995
No work by Zora Neale Hurston has received harsher critical evaluation than her anthropological study of Haiti and Jamaica, "Tell My Horse." Although her aim in part was to write a commercially successful popular book, she also aimed, with some success, to offer significant social commentary. (SLD)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Authors, Females, Literary Criticism