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Walking on Fire : Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance
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Walking on Fire : Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance Paperback - 2002

by Bell, Beverly

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  • Title Walking on Fire : Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance
  • Author Bell, Beverly
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-01-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5362542-6
  • ISBN 9780801487484 / 080148748X
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 5.96 x 0.69 in (22.91 x 15.14 x 1.75 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Haiti - Social conditions, Women - Haiti
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001004057
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

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From the publisher

Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination.In Walking on Fire, Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for example, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status despite gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti's poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival.The women's powerfully moving accounts of horror and heroism can best be characterized by the Creole word istwa, which means both "story" and "history." They combine theory with case studies concerning resistance, gender, and alternative models of power. Photographs of the women who have lived through Haiti's recent past accompany their words to further personalize the interviews in Walking on Fire.

First line

Marlene Larose is a woman with an indomitable spirit and a ferocious will.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2002, Page 2020
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2002, Page 132
  • Multicultural Review, 09/01/2002, Page 95
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/03/2001, Page 52
  • Qbr the Black Book Review, 07/01/2002, Page 28

About the author

Beverly Bell is the founder and director of the Center for Economic Justice in Albuquerque, N.M. She has worked closely with the Haitian democracy and women's movements for more than two decades. Edwidge Danticat is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and Krik? Krak!

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