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WHY HAITI NEEDS NEW NARRATIVES
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| By: |
Gina Athena Ulysse, Robin D. G. Kelley |
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Paperback |
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£20.50 |
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£17.43 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0819575453 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780819575456 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND |
| Pub. date: |
25 May, 2015 |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Language: |
English, French |
| Description: |
A Haitian-American anthropologist makes sense of her homeland in the wake of the 2010 earthquake |
| Synopsis: |
Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse embarked on a writing spree that lasted over two years. As an ethnographer and a member of the diaspora, Ulysse delivers critical cultural analysis of geopolitics and daily life in a series of dispatches, op-eds and articles on post-quake Haiti. Her complex yet singular aim is to make sense of how the nation and its subjects continue to negotiate sovereignty and being in a world where, according to a Haitian saying, tout moun se moun, men tout moun pa menm (All people are human, but all humans are not the same). This collection contains thirty pieces, most of which were previously published in and on Haitian Times, Huffington Post, Ms Magazine, Ms Blog, NACLA, and other print and online venues. The book is trilingual (English, Kreyol, and French) and includes a foreword by award-winning author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley. |
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3 illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Wesleyan University Press |
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Returnable |
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