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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonilla, Yarimar, editor.

LeBrón, Marisol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Maria, 2017.

Hurricanes--Social aspects--Puerto Rico.

Hurricanes.

Hurricanes--Social aspects.

Puerto Rico--Social conditions.

Puerto Rico.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2019.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1642590304

9781642590302

OCLC:

1084394874