Why Haiti Needs New Narratives : A Post-Quake Chronicle /

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A Haitian-American anthropologist makes sense of her homeland in the wake of the 2010 earthquake.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulysse, Gina Athena (Author)
Other Authors: Trouillot, Évelyne, 1954- (Translator), Menard, Nadeve (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Haitian
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Repräsentation > Soziologie
Politik
Soziale Situation
Wiederaufbau
Erdbeben
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Economic history.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Tremblement de terre d'Haïti, Haïti, 2010.
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
Haiti
Haiti.
Haïti > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siecle.
Haïti > Conditions economiques > 21e siecle.
Haïti > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Haiti > Politics and government > 21st century.
Haiti > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Haiti > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Introduction: negotiating my Haiti(s)
  • Responding to the call
  • Avatar, voodoo, and white spiritual redemption
  • Amid the rubble and ruin, our duty to Haiti remains
  • Haiti will never be the same
  • Dehumanization and fracture : trauma at home and abroad
  • Haiti's future : a requiem for the dying
  • Not-so-random thoughts on words, art, and creativity
  • Sisters of the cowries, struggles, and haiti's future
  • Tout moun se moun : everyone must count in Haiti
  • Haiti's earthquake's nickname and some women's trauma
  • Why representations of Haiti matter now more than ever
  • Unfinished business, a proverb, and an uprooting
  • Rape a part of daily life for women in Haitian relief camps
  • Haiti's solidarity with angels
  • Haiti's electionaval 2010
  • If i were president : Haiti's diasporic draft (part I)
  • Staging Haiti's upcoming selection
  • Haiti's fouled-up elections
  • Reassessing my response
  • Why I am marching for "Ayiti cheri"
  • Rising from the dust of goudougoudou
  • The Haiti story you won't read
  • When I wail for Haiti : debriefing (performing) a black Atlantic nightmare
  • Pawol fanm sou douz janvye
  • The legacy of a Haitian feminist, paulette poujol oriol
  • Click! doing the dishes and my rock>n' roll dreams
  • Constant : Haiti's fiercest flag bearer
  • Haitian feminist yolette jeanty honored with other global women's activists
  • Why context matters : journalists and Haiti
  • A spiritual imperative
  • Fractured temples : vodou two years after Haiti's earthquake
  • Defending vodou in Haiti
  • Loving Haiti beyond the mystique
  • Coda: a plea is not a mantra
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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