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Contents
Introduction: The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Vincent Joos, Martin Munro, and John Ribó
Chapter 1. Mòd Leta: Haitian Understandings of Crises Past in Present
Mark Schuller
Chapter 2. After the Storm: Hurricane Matthew, Haiti, and Disaster’s Longue Durée
Laura Wagner
Chapter 3. Malediksyon: (Neo)colonial Development, Disasters, and Counter-Capitalism in Northeastern Haiti
Vincent Joos
Chapter 4. Post-Katrina Intrusions on African American Cultural Traditions in New Orleans
Shearon Roberts
Chapter 5. Cat Bonds and Necrocapitalism in Haiti and Puerto Rico
Jana Evans Braziel
Chapter 6. Wake Work in Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Beyond
John Ribó
Chapter 7. Art and Politics facing Disaster in the Caribbean: Defining a new Cultural Diplomacy
Vanessa Selk
Chapter 8. Marvin Victor’s Corps mêlésand the Writing of Disaster in Haiti
Martin Munro
Chapter 9. Beyond Malediction and Prophecy: Melovivi or the trap
Alex Lenoble
Index
The Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Edited by Vincent Joos, Martin Munro, and John Ribó
211 pages, 19 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-956-7 Hb Published (April 2023)