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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818283003321

Autore

Ulysse Gina Athena

Titolo

Why Haiti needs new narratives : a post-quake chronicle / / Gina Athena Ulysse ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley ; translated by Nadève Mønard and Évelyne Trouillot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8195-7546-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (438 p.)

Disciplina

972.9407/3

Soggetti

Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010

Haiti Social conditions 21st century

Haiti Economic conditions 21st century

Haiti Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 chorie -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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