Place in Haitian Literature Since The 2010 Earthquake

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4489341
AutoresMark Cruse (Arizona State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen103
Número4
Páginas469-483
Fecha de publicación2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2013.00014.x
OpenAlexW1994748968
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

Novelists responded immediately to the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. Analysis of key works demonstrates the numerous images and interpretations that the catastrophe has generated among Haitians, and is valuable as a source for indigenous understandings of the altered nature of place in Haiti. Literature offers insight into the Haitian view of the earthquake's effect on gender relations, family structures, urban migration and development, and memory. Literature also participates in the country's reconstruction by articulating the challenges and opportunities faced by Haitian society, and by providing a space for therapeutic self‐expression. In this literature we witness the development of the language, attitudes, emotions, and meanings that are and will be the earthquake's cultural legacy

Indigenous · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Witness · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law