| Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me & the World Contributor(s): Ulysse, Gina Athena (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819577359 ISBN-13: 9780819577351 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2016049304 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 7.5" W x 9.2" (0.60 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A poetic journey through silence, rebellious rage, love, and the sacred Gina Athena Ulysse's Because When God Is Too Busy: Haïti, me & THE WORLD is a lyrically vivid meditative journey that is unapologetic in its determination to name, embrace and reclaim a revolutionary Blackness that has been historically stigmatized and denied. Crafting experiments with "ethnographic collectibles" of word, performative sounds, and imagery to blur genres and the lines between the geopolitical and the personal, this collection is a testament to postcolonial inheritances. Ulysse's work remixes samples from a range of references as it beckons readers to bear witness to a coming of age as she shifts between time and place and plays with languages to stretch the margins of aesthetics in the academic. These poems, performance texts, and photographs gather fractured memories--longings laced with Vodou chants confronting a past that looms too largely in the present. Because When God Is Too Busy searches for humility while honoring sacred and ancestral imperatives to recognize and salute power beyond Western attachments to reason. |