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- Title
Life in the Ruins: Personal Narratives and the Haitian Earthquake of 2010.
- Authors
Popkin, Jeremy D.
- Abstract
The article offers a critique of novels and memoir literature published about the Haitian earthquake of January 12, 2010. Topics discussed include the power of imaginative fiction and the limitations of novels and memoir literature as well as the works of Francophone authors Makenzy Orcel, Marvin Victor and Kettly Mars. Also mentioned are the stories told by U.S. authors Jonathan Katz, Susan Magnuson Walsh and Dan Wooley embodying a U.S. tradition of active autobiographical protagonists.
- Subjects
HAITI Earthquake, Haiti, 2010; MEMOIRS; FICTION; ORCEL, Makenzy; VICTOR, Marvin; MARS, Kettly
- Publication
Esprit Createur, 2016, Vol 56, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
0014-0767
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/esp.2016.0002