Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home

by Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327910
• ISBN13: 9780822327912
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"