Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle

by Gina Athena Ulysse and Evelyne Trouillot

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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819575453
• ISBN13: 9780819575456
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"