Jana Evans Braziel

Broschiertes Buch

Riding with Death

Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-Au-Prince

Beschreibung

Explores the urban environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged automobile parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled materials. Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these sculptures amid environmental degradation and poverty.

Autor

Jana Evans Braziel, Cincinnati, Ohio, is Western College Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. She has coedited five volumes and is author of Duvalier's Ghosts: Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures; Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds; Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora; and Diaspora: An Introduction.

Produktdetails

• Caribbean Studies Series
• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781496818522
• ISBN-10: 1496818520
• Artikelnr.: 50022483