{"product_id":"harvesting-haiti-reflections-on-unnatural-disasters-9781477327814","title":"Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 Longlist OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Bocas Lit Fest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. As the post-earthquake political situation unfolded, Myriam Chancy worked to illuminate on-the-ground concerns, from the vulnerable position of Haitian women to the failures of international aid. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, and circulated in other ways, her essays and creative responses preserve the reactions and urgencies of the years following the disaster. \u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHarvesting Haiti\u003c\/i\u003e, Chancy examines the structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions and reflects at key points after the earthquake on its effects on vulnerable communities. Her essays make clear the importance of sustaining and supporting the dignity of Haitian lives and of creating a better, contextualized understanding of the issues that mark Haitians' historical and present realities, from gender parity to the vexed relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Guggenheim Fellow and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAutochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books, including four novels, the latest of which is \u003ci\u003eWhat Storm, What Thunder\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487831429394,"sku":"9781477327814","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7181208-814e-45ce-bd42-023bde3b6676.jpg?v=1730455851","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/harvesting-haiti-reflections-on-unnatural-disasters-9781477327814","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}