Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-Au-Prince

by Jana Braziel and Jana Evans Braziel

Book Overview

On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496818520
• ISBN13: 9781496818522
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"