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
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Ulysse Gina Athena
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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
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| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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.: | 9910460393403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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