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Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times (New World Studies)
Martin Munro
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Description for Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times (New World Studies)
Hardcover. Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, the author situates the question of the Caribbean apocalypse in relation to broader, global narratives of the apocalyptic present—notably Slavoj Žižek's Living in the End Times— and traces the evolution of apocalyptic thought in the work of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard ... Read more
In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, the author situates the question of the Caribbean apocalypse in relation to broader, global narratives of the apocalyptic present—notably Slavoj Žižek's Living in the End Times— and traces the evolution of apocalyptic thought in the work of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938196
SKU
V9780813938196
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About Martin Munro
Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University, USA is editor of Edwidge Danticat: A Reader (Virginia) and author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas.
Reviews for Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times (New World Studies)
“Tropical Apocalypse is a fascinating and informative study of recent Haitian cultural representations of a series of natural and man-made disasters."" —Mark D. Anderson, University of Georgia