... but rather rendered them unamplified and mute. The telethon focused on the emotionality of the American popular singers, and overwrote the story of the disaster with an American way of knowing, divorced entirely from Caribbean narratives, histories, and understandings. McAllister crystallizes connections...

...). That form of consciousness can be fully articulated through the imagination and the creation of narrative, which is why I now turn to Trouillot’s and Wagner’s novels to fill out the contours of that vision here. That the photograph is from the “archives of disaster” (51) created in the aftermath...

...) in Haiti. The disaster narrative that has been attached to the Haitian Republic since January 2010 actually feels pretty familiar. Comfortable, even. With its spotlight on the governmental ineptitude and social chaos that has persistently thwarted recovery in the two years since the quake, Haiti’s...

... experiences that give rise to them, are more complex, nuanced, and ambiguous than the certainty of death itself. But then again, death too, in the Haitian context, is not quite a finality. These phrases offer a glimpse into what Martin Munro describes as Haitian narratives of disaster that induce...

... about the sculpture's universal resonance jar against the disaster-focused Haitian context given to Freedom! in the institutional narrative, while his and the Atis rezistans' retrospective comments also question its didactic, commemorative, and campaigning functions. Looking back to the 1990s...

... that we find the most interesting possibilities. In addition, at the end of the narrative, the birth of the child whose destiny is guided by the spirit of Carmen and the body of an unnamed indigenous woman “queers” the foundational fraternity described by Chaar-Pérez, offering a spectral/haunted quality...

...Adriana María Garriga-López This essay addresses the epistemic limits of crisis as a trope for thinking about the future of Puerto Rico in the context of fiscal austerity programs and the combined effects of multiple disasters. Small-scale agriculture and mutual aid offer models of resistance to US...

...-coastguard-commander-says-hits-migrants-to-protect-them . 12 In addition to her explicitly scholarly work, Bonilla has appeared on Democracy Now and in the Washington Post and on other news programs and outlets speaking and writing about Puerto Rico, colonialism, disaster capitalism...

... travel seeks to revert the result of negative actions in the past, eliminating uncertainty retrospectively. And yet moral freedom, the mark of the human, requires uncertainty to function, which thwarts time travel as a messianic genre. Yet even in failure, time travel reminds us that impending disaster...

... governments that remain vested in the interests of local and multinational elites and the displacement or deportation of working people. Flags of convenience, of course, are only convenient for the former and disastrous for the latter. In the moment of disaster, the stark character of this divide is laid bare...

... responses to crisis, such as protests over the high cost of living or government corruption, with ordinary or seemingly banal disasters, such as a capsized boat that led to the deaths of dozens of overseas migrants to show how the political crisis in Haiti appears in people’s lives in both ordinary...

... and refused private land ownership, citing communal land as their shield, these issues have resurfaced in the rebuilding process after Hurricane Irma. Barbudans’ desires to maintain their previous way of life remain hampered by the Antiguan government’s disaster capitalist desires to reconstruct Barbuda...

... and learning from the resilience of strong women. C hristienna D. F ryar is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Buffalo State. She is completing her first book, “The Measure of Empire: Disaster and British Imperialism in Postemancipation Jamaica,” which explores how imperial disaster politics...

...; see also Bonilla, “The Coloniality of Disaster.” 18 See Yarimar Bonilla, Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); and Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing...

... repair. It considers how the multiple devastations of recent “unnatural disasters” in the Caribbean are the outcome of the coloniality of climate, the deadly logics of racial capitalism, and the persistence of antiblack racism globally. The coloniality of climate calls for attention to repair, care...

... and not others. And for Hessel the vision of history that most nurtures la faculté d’indignation is not the familiar, optimistic Hegelian one, according to which human freedom progresses stage by stage (étape par étape) to the final realization of an ideal state. This, one might say, is the narrative...

... of the disaster, and we will marry to live happily ever after and have many children.” 50 This self-deriding ending creolizes literary genres, blending utopias with biblical myths, apocalyptic narratives, romances, and fairy tales, ultimately mocking them all with a comical rewriting of the iconic...

... springing for nowhere to jook and sting. He had always known that a cultivator’s life was labour of the hardest, most grueling kind. 7 e prospect of a future of years like the one just past, repeating its disasters without limit or end, was dreadful. (p. 41) 7 e dusty, dry, brittle soil...

... textual evidence and employ forensic rhetoric to refute competing claims and vindicate their cause. By elucidating the generic conventions of the mémoire, this essay contributes to the growing body of scholarship on Black writing that has moved beyond the paradigm of the slave narrative toward other forms...

... is different today from when Girvan first gave these insights in the 1970s is that climate change has accelerated to the point that many bioecological systems have reached tipping points. This acceleration puts the emphasis of technology transfer not only on nation-centered versus region-centered narratives...