Why Haiti Needs New Narratives - A Post-quake Chronicle

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

About the author

GINA ATHENA ULYSSE is an associate professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University. Born in Haiti, she has lived in the United States for over thirty years. A performance artist, multimedia artist, and anthropologist, she is the author of Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica. ROBIN D.G. KELLEY is the Distinguished Professor of History and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History at UCLA.

Product details

• Authors: Gina Athena Ulysse, Gina Athena/ Kelley Ulysse
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2015
• EAN: 9780819575449
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7544-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature