Why Haiti Needs New Narratives / by Gina Athena Ulysse

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulysse, Gina Athena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political and Social Movements.

Social movements.

Cultural identity.

Haiti.

Local Subjects:

Political and Social Movements.

Social movements.

Cultural identity.

Haiti.

Genre:

103

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Other Title:

Why Haiti Needs New Narratives

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

A Haitian-American anthropologist makes sense of her homeland in the wake of the 2010 earthquakeWinner of the Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015)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 feminist 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, Kreyòl, and French) and includes a foreword by award-winning author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 10, 2022).