The Power of the Story

Vincent Joos is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global French Studies at Florida State University. He recently published Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti (Rutgers, 2021).

List of Figures



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

Vincent Joos, Martin Munro, and John Ribó



Chapter 1. Mòd Leta: Haitian Understandings of Crises Past in Present

Mark Schuller



Chapter 2. After the Storm: Hurricane Matthew, Haiti, and Disaster’s Longue Durée

Laura Wagner



Chapter 3. Malediksyon: (Neo)colonial Development, Disasters, and Counter-Capitalism in Northeastern Haiti

Vincent Joos



Chapter 4. Post-Katrina Intrusions on African American Cultural Traditions in New Orleans

Shearon Roberts



Chapter 5. Cat Bonds and Necrocapitalism in Haiti and Puerto Rico

Jana Evans Braziel



Chapter 6. Wake Work in Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Beyond

John Ribó



Chapter 7. Art and Politics facing Disaster in the Caribbean: Defining a new Cultural Diplomacy

Vanessa Selk



Chapter 8. Marvin Victor’s Corps mêlésand the Writing of Disaster in Haiti

Martin Munro



Chapter 9. Beyond Malediction and Prophecy: Melovivi or the trap

Alex Lenoble



Index