Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance

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Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-incessantly-overpassed history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a big role in changing the balance of political and social power, whilst they have got endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination.

In Walking on Fire, Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for instance, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status in spite of gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti’s poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival.

The women’s powerfully moving accounts of horror and heroism can perfect be characterized by the Creole word istwa, this means that both “story” and “history.” They combine theory with case studies concerning resistance, gender, and alternative models of power. Photographs of the women who have lived through Haiti’s latest past accompany their words to further personalize the interviews in Walking on Fire.

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