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Haiti Re-membered: Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Imaginings in the Writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam Chancy

Clitandre, Nadège Tanite
2009

dans
UC
Mots-clés
colonialisme/histoire
migrations/diaspora
récits
Résumé
Résumé :

This project is a critical examination of Haitian migration and displacement in North America that engages both a theoretical and literary analysis of exile and diaspora as consequences of migration and displacement. Grounded in literary criticism, this dissertation argues that Haitian writers in North America inscribe migration by troping exile and diaspora to speak of the predicament of displaced migratory subjects and their inevitable crossings of places, landscapes, borders, cultures, and nations.

Articles de revue et chapitres de livres

Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection among Poor Women in Haiti: (1997)

Kidder, Tracy
2010

dans
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
UC Press
Mots-clés
corps/sexualités
santé
Résumé
Résumé :

Social scientists and physicians alike have long known that the socioeconomically disadvantaged have higher rates of disease than those not hampered by such constraints. But what are the mechanisms and processes that transform social factors into personal risk? How do forces as disparate as sexism, poverty, and political violence become embodied as individual pathology? These and related questions are key not only to medical anthropology but to social theory in general.

Livres

Haiti, History, and the Gods

Dayan, Joan
1998

dans
UC Press
Mots-clés
colonialisme/histoire
récits
spiritualité/religion
Résumé
Résumé :

In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today.

Livres

Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women

Burns, A. August, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell et Katharine Shapiro
2019

dans
Hesperian Health Guides
Mots-clés
violences
corps/sexualités
santé
familles
travail rémunéré
travail non rémunéré
Résumé
Résumé :

This 2020 updated printing features updated antiretroviral information based on new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines to treat HIV and prevent mother-to-child transmission. Other updated topics include: treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI's); family planning; cervical, breast and other cancers; eclampsia; care for women who have had abortions; and medicines. All Hesperian books are regularly updated and reprinted to reflect accurate medical information.

Articles de revue et chapitres de livres

Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era

Caple James, Erica
2008

dans
Postcolonial Disorders
UC Press
Mots-clés
colonialisme/histoire
violences
politique/gouvernement
pauvreté/précarité
Résumé
Résumé :

This chapter addresses the current state of Haiti as an archetype of a postcolonial and post-dictatorial country plagued by economic and political instability. Caple James explores the different reasons why the Haitian transition to democracy was both unpredictable and dangerous for individuals, communities and the entire nation through one case study she encountered while doing field work in the country.

Livres

Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

McCarty Brown, Karen
2011

dans
UC Press
Mots-clés
colonialisme/histoire
droits des femmes
spiritualité/religion
Résumé
Résumé :

Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a 35 year long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Claudine Michel's account of working with Mama Lola after the Haitian earthquake.

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