Place in Haitian Literature Since The 2010 Earthquake

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4489341
AutoresMark Cruse (Arizona State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume103
Fascículo4
Páginas469-483
Data de publicação2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2013.00014.x
OpenAlexW1994748968
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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