| Description |
vi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: fall and rise / Martin Munro -- pt. I. Survivor testimonies: 1. Haiti, or the health of misery / Yanick Lahens -- 2. Manman, Pa kite yo koupe janm mwen! Mommy, don't let them cut my leg! / Marlène Rigaud Apollon -- 3. Salvaging / Laura Wagner -- 4. When there is no echo / Jason Herbeck -- 5. Finding the words / Michel Le Bris -- 6. Point of view / Thomas C. Spear -- 7. Dead-end in Port-au-prince / Raoul Peck -- 8. Helping Haiti-- helping ourselves / Nadève Ménard -- 9. Eternity lasted less than sixty seconds-- / Evelyne Trouillot -- pt. II. Politics, culture, and society: 10. Rising from the ruins: Haiti in two hundred years / J. Michael Dash -- 11. Religion in post-earthquake Haiti / Leslie G. Desmangles and Elizabeth McAlister -- 12. Shaken ground, strong foundations: honoring the legacy of Haitian feminism after the earthquake / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles -- 13. Art, artists, and the shaking of the foundations / LeGrace Benson -- 14. From the rubble to the telethon: music, religion, and the Haiti quake / Elizabeth McAlister -- The writing of disaster in Haiti: signifying cataclysm from the slave revolution to earthquake / Deborah Jenson -- pt. III. History: 16. The legacies of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue / John D. Garrigus -- 17. Reckoning in Haiti: the state and society since the revolution / Jean Casimir and Laurent Dubois -- 18. Uprisings, insurrections, and political movements: contemporary Haiti and the teachings of history, 1957-2010 / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith -- pt. IV. Haiti and me: 19. Haïti chérie / Maryse Condé -- 20. 7.0 on the horror scale: notes on the Haitian earthquake / Beverly Bell -- 21. Art in the time of catastrophe / Madison Smart Bell -- 22. What is the earthquake for? / Bill Drummond -- 23. Took my heart to a Vodou priest, I said, "What can you do papa? It's all screwed up-- " / Leah Gordon -- 24. Port-au-Prince, I love you / Matthew J. Smith. |
| Subject |
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
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Haiti -- History.
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Haiti -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Munro, Martin.
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| ISBN |
9789766402488 |
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9766402485 |
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