Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm" (Haymarket, 2019)

New Books in Latino Studies · Oct 4, 2019 · 58m

Marking the two year anniversary of Hurricane María making landfall in Puerto Rico, the September 2019 release of the anthology Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019) brings together a collective of artists, journalists, and scholars to reflect on the multiple disasters that have hit the island and how the people of Puerto Rico have responded.

Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, the editors of the anthology, in their editor’s introduction foreground the history of Puerto Rico’s continual state failure. Social abandonment, capitalization, and…