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Aftershocks of disaster : Puerto Rico before and after the storm

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Aftershocks of disaster : Puerto Rico before and after the storm / [edited by] Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón.

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Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
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xiii, 366 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere. The concept of 'aftershocks' is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the lasting effects of hurricane Maria, not just the effects of the wind or the rain, but delving into what followed: state failure, social abandonment, capitalization on human misery, and the collective trauma produced by the botched response."--

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I. Openings -- The trauma doctrine / a conversation between Yarimar Bonilla and Naomi Klein -- ¡Ay María! / Mariana Carbonell, et al. -- Part II. Narrating the trauma -- WAPA radio: voices amid the silence and desperation / Dandra D., Rodríguez Cotto -- María's death toll: on the crucial role of Puerto Rico's investigative journalists / Carla Minet -- (note for a friend who wants to commit suicide after the hurricane) / Raquel Salas Rivera -- "I'm quite comfortable": abandonment and resignation after María / Benjamín Torres Gotay -- Narrating the unnameable / Eduardo Lalo -- If a tree falls in an island: the metaphysics of colonialism / Ana Portnoy Brimmer -- this was meant to be a hurricane diary / Beatriz Llenín Figueroa -- Another haphazard gesture / Sofía Gallisá Muriente -- Part III. Representing the disaster -- Our fellow Americans: why calling Puerto Ricans "Americas" will not save them / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- US media depictions of climate migrants: the recent case of the Puerto Rican "exodus" / Hilda Lloréns -- Accountability and representation: photographic coverage after the disaster / Erika P. Rodríguez -- Lifting the veil: portraiture as a tool for bilateral representation / Christopher Gregory -- The importance of politically engaged artistic and curatorial practices in the aftermath of hurricane María / Marianne Ramírez-Aponte -- Si no pudiera hacer arte, me iba: The aesthetics of disaster as catharsis in contemporary Puerto Rican art / Carlos Rivera Santana -- Art and a threshold called dignity / TIAGO (Richard Santiago) -- Picking up the pieces / Adrian Roman -- Part IV. Capitalizing on the crisis -- sinvergüenza sin nación/sinvergüenza with no nation / Raquel Salas Rivera -- Puerto Rico's unjust debt / Ed Morales -- Puerto Rico's debt is odious / Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan -- Dismantling public education in Puerto Rico / Rima Brusi and Isar Godreau -- Puerto Rico's fight for a citizen debt audit: a strategy for public mobilization and a fair reconstruction / Eva L. Prados-Rodríguez -- Rhizomatic / Ana Portnoy Brimmer -- Part V. Transforming Puerto Rico -- Looking for a way forward in the past: lessons from the Puerto Rican Natinoaist Party Mónica Jiménez -- Psychoanalysis as a political act after María / Patricia Noboa Ortega -- Authenticating loss and contesting recovery: REMA and the politics of colonial disaster management / Sarh Molinari -- the energy uprising: a community driven search for sustainability and sovereignty in Puerto Rico / Arturo Massol-Deyá -- Community kitchens: an emerging movement? / Giovanni Roberto -- Building accountability and secure futures: an interview with Mari Mari Narváez / Marisol LeBrón -- Afterword: critique and decoloniality in the face of crisis, disaster, and catastrophe / Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

Call Number

Sc D 20-14

ISBN

1642590304
9781642590302
9781642591781
1642591785

OCLC

1084394874

Title

Aftershocks of disaster : Puerto Rico before and after the storm / [edited by] Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.

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text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Bonilla, Yarimar, editor.

LeBrón, Marisol, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 20-14

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