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The Power of the Story
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction. The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
- Chapter 1. Mòd Leta: Haitian Understandings of Crises Past in Present
- Chapter 2. After the Storm: Hurricane Matthew, Haiti, and Disaster’s Longue Durée
- Chapter 3. Malediksyon: (Neo)colonial Development, Disasters, and Countercapitalism in Northeastern Haiti
- Chapter 4. Post-Katrina Intrusions on African American Cultural Traditions in New Orleans
- Chapter 5. Cat Bonds and Necrocapitalism in Haiti and Puerto Rico
- Chapter 6. Wake Work in Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Beyond
- Chapter 7. Art and Politics Facing Disaster in the Caribbean: Defining a New Cultural Diplomacy
- Chapter 8. Marvin Victor’s Corps mêlés and the Writing of Disaster in Haiti
- Chapter 9. Beyond Malediction and Prophecy: Melovivi or the Trap
- Epilogue. Disrupting Permanent Catastrophe through Commemoration, Grief, and Action
- Index
- 出版地 ： 美國
- 語言 ： 英文
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