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Mi MARIA: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico BRAND NEW!
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- various
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Mi Maria: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico. (Voice...
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Inscribed
- No
- Colour
- N/A
- Vintage
- No
- Brand
- N/A
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Paperback
- EAN
- 9781642595796
- ISBN
- 1642595799
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Haymarket Books
ISBN-10
1642595799
ISBN-13
9781642595796
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4050395472
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mi María: Surviving the Storm : Voices from Puerto Rico
Number of Pages
330 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
World / Caribbean & Latin American, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Disasters & Disaster Relief
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Book Series
Voice of Witness Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
5.5 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-952206
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A crucial oral history by Puerto Ricans surviving the twin disasters of Hurricane María and colonialism." --Molly Crabapple, author, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham) "For a disaster born at the intersection of colonization and the climate crisis, only a first-person plural account can truly do justice in a post-tragedy landscape where there has been no justice. Mi María: Surviving the Storm is a triumph of eyewitness accounts that centers survivors and tells a three-dimensional truth that can only be pieced together from multiple perspectives." --Aya de León, author, Side Chick Nation "Through first-person narratives and biographical profiles Mi María offers a kaleidoscope of experiences and personal stories that take readers behind the headlines of Hurricane María. The book offers an important archive of experiences, challenges, and stories that are otherwise absent from mainstream coverage of Puerto Rico and is sure to be of interest to both current audiences and future generations of readers interested in the lived experience of one of the largest political and environmental disasters in US history. The chance to hear directly from those left out of national headlines is at once moving, unsettling, and eye-opening." --Yarimar Bonilla, coeditor, Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm "Passionate and urgent; heart-wrenching and deeply infuriating. Mi María holds space for us to process the multiple and ongoing traumas of Hurricane María--the violence and devastation of the storm itself, yes, but also the deep-seated traumas of state failure, colonial neglect, and capitalist corruption Puerto Ricans found themselves forced to find solutions to while rebuilding their communities in the aftermath of the storm. These are stories not just of resilience. They are stories of resistance, solidarity, and the ethos of mutual aid--the daring to radically reimagine our world in new ways when confronted with our own survival." --Sara Awartani, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights at Harvard University "Though the narrators in Mi María endure great hardship, their stories soar with strength and resolve and love of their fellow humans. Anyone who loves Puerto Rico must read this book." --Dave Eggers, writer, cofounder of Voice of Witness, "Mi María: Surviving the Storm is a collection of electrifying testimonies from a variety of individuals who bravely survived the destructive forces of Hurricane María. . . The most striking element of the testimonies goes beyond the human resilience toward survival against ravaging natural elements." -- Smith Collection Reviews
Dewey Decimal
972.950530922
Synopsis
When Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left no part of the archipelago unscathed. The hurricane triggered floods and mudslides, washed out roads, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, farms, and businesses, caused the largest blackout in US history, knocked out communications, led to widespread food, drinking water, and gasoline shortages, and caused thousands of deaths. share stories of the hurricane and its long aftermath as people waited for relief and aid that rarely arrived and communities collectively organized to support one another in recovery. Zaira and her husband floated on a patched air mattress for sixteen hours while floodwaters rose around them. The road washed out in front of Emmanuel as he desperately tried to drive his pregnant wife who had begun labor to the hospital. Luis and his father anxiously counted the days that the dialysis clinic remained closed and lifesaving treatment was unavailable, while Miliana's mother was sent home from the hospital --undiagnosed-- only to fall critically ill in her own home. Weaving together long-form oral histories and shorter testimonios, the book offers a multivocal peoples' history of disaster that fosters a greater understanding of the failures of governmental disaster response and the correlating perseverance of the people impacted by these failures, highlighting the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Ultimately, the ways in which these oral histories demonstrate the strength of community response to disaster in Puerto Rico are pertinent to other parts of the world that are being impacted by our current climate emergency. Note to educators: Corresponding free lesson plans are available for download on the Voice of Witness website., When Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left no part of the archipelago unscathed. The hurricane triggered floods and mudslides, washed out roads, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, farms, and businesses, caused the largest blackout in US history, knocked out communications, led to widespread food, drinking water, and gasoline shortages, and caused thousands of deaths. The seventeen oral histories collected in Mi María: Surviving the Storm share stories of surviving the storm and its long aftermath as people waited for relief and aid that rarely arrived. Zaira and her husband floated on a patched air mattress for sixteen hours while floodwaters rose around them. The road washed out in front of Emmanuel as he desperately tried to drive his pregnant wife who had begun labor to the hospital. Luis and his father anxiously counted the days that the dialysis clinic remained closed and lifesaving treatment was unavailable, while Miliana's mother was sent home from the hospital --undiagnosed-- only to fall critically ill in her own home. Weaving together long-form oral histories and shorter testimonios, the book offers a multivocal peoples' history of disaster that fosters a greater understanding of the failures of governmental disaster response and the correlating perseverance of the people impacted by these failures, highlighting the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Ultimately, the ways in which these oral histories demonstrate the strength of community response to disaster in Puerto Rico are pertinent to other parts of the world that are being impacted by our current climate emergency. Download the corresponding lesson plans on the Voice of Witness website., On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María pummeled Puerto Rico for over thirty hours. As brutal as the storm was, the real catastrophe was yet to come. Lack of government support left many in the archipelago without electricity, clean drinking water, food, and medical care for months. Years later, Puerto Rico is still recovering. Mi María: Surviving the Storm brings together seventeen stories of perseverance and community that ask what it means to be a US citizen in a colonial context, how communities come together in the wake of disaster, and how precarity is exacerbated for those on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Hear from: ZAIRA, who survived the hurricane by floating on a patched air mattress for sixteen hours; NEYSHA, who gave birth prematurely in a clinic without electricity, running water, or a working phone; CARLOS, a coffee farmer whose harvest and home were destroyed for the second time in his life; and many others. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
F1976.5
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