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

• Autore: Ulysse Gina Athena
• Pubblicazione: Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.9407/3
• Soggetto topico: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010
• Soggetto geografico: Haiti Social conditions 21st century; Haiti Economic conditions 21st century; Haiti Politics and government 21st century
• Persona (resp. second.): KelleyRobin D. G.; MønardNadève; TrouillotÉvelyne
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Why Haiti needs new narratives
• ISBN: 0-8195-7546-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797290503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II