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| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Edward Hower |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,710 Words, 16,735 Characters |
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THE FARMING OF BONES
Edwidge Danticat
New York: Soho, 1998
312 pp,. $23.00
Regional disasters seem to be exploding all over the world these days. Atrocities in Bosnia, Rwanda, Indonesia, Mexico, and elsewhere are reported in the media in such graphic detail that we often become numb to the human suffering they involve. We develop what human-rights advocates call "compassion fatigue," a condition that causes us considerable frustration. We know that these events should have strong impacts on us, should elicit horror, sadness, and compassion. And yet we're unable to make connections between ourselves and the people whose stories we encounter. Not only are we cut off from others but from our own ability to feel--and thus from our own sense of humanity.
This is when we ...
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...he human victims of tragedy, we can reaffirm our own compassion.
FOOTNOTE:
FOOTNOTE: 1.Robert Crassweller, Trujillo: The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator (New York: Macmillan, 1966), 156.
FOOTNOTE: 2.Robert Debs Heinl Jr. and Nancy Gordon Heinl, Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 526. FOOTNOTE: 3.Crassweller, Trujillo, 156. vbcrlf
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