The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

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.