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Georges Woke Up Laughing Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home
by Schiller, Nina Glick, Fouron, Georges Eugene, Joseph, Gilbert M.
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- Comments: Illustrated. Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain citizens, and the impotency of government in an increasingly globalized world. By presenting lively ruminations on his life as a Haitian immigrant, Georges Eugene Fouron-along with Nina Glick Schiller, whose own family history stems from Poland and Rus
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- ISBN: 0822327910
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
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"Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron do a masterful job of describing the full spectrum of factors shaping the experience of migration, ranging from utopian dreams of the home country to the hard reality that some states are only apparent states. This is a work of inspired ethnographic research, stunning scholarship, and creative grace and energy."-Karen McCarthy Brown, author ofMama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in BrooklynSchiller, Nina Glick is the author of 'Georges Woke Up Laughing Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home' with ISBN 9780822327912 and ISBN 0822327910.
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