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Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle

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Winner 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 day by day 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, in keeping with a Haitian saying, tout moun se moun, men tout moun pa menm (All persons are human, but all humans aren’t the similar). This collection incorporates thirty pieces, most of which have been prior to now published in and on Haitian Times, Huffington Post, Ms Magazine, Ms Blog, NACLA, and other print and online venues. The book is trilingual (English, KreyĆ²l, and French) and features a foreword by award-winning writer and historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

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