Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).

• Introduction: Fall and Rise Martin Munro Part i: Survivor Testimonies 1 Haiti, or the Health of Misery Yanick Lahens 2 Manman, Pa kite yo koupe janm mwen! Mommy, don’t let them cut my leg! Marlène Rigaud Apollon 3 Salvaging - Laura Wagner 4 When There Is No Echo - Jason Herbeck 5 Finding the Words - Michel Le Bris 6 Point of View - Thomas C. Spear 7 Dead-end in Port-au-Prince - Raoul Peck 8 Helping Haiti – Helping Ourselves - Nadève Ménard 9 Eternity Lasted Less than Sixty Seconds … Evelyne Trouillot Part ii: Politics, Culture, and Society 10 Rising from the Ruins: Haiti in Two Hundred Years - J. Michael Dash 11 Religion in Post-earthquake Haiti - Leslie G. Desmangles and Elizabeth McAlister 12 Shaken Ground, Strong Foundations: Honoring the Legacy of Haitian Feminism after the Earthquake - Régine Michelle Jean-Charles 13 Art, Artists, and the Shaking of the Foundations - LeGrace Benson 14 From the Rubble to the Telethon: Music, Religion, and the Haiti Quake - Elizabeth McAlister 15 The Writing of Disaster in Haiti: Signifying Cataclysm from Slave Revolution to Earthquake - Deborah Jenson Part iii: History 16 The Legacies of Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue - John D. Garrigus 17 Reckoning in Haiti: The State and Society since the Revolution - Jean Casimir and Laurent Dubois 18 Uprisings, Insurrections, and Political Movements: Contemporary Haiti and the Teachings of History, 1957–2010 Patrick Bellegarde-Smith Part iv: Haiti and Me 19. Haïti - Chérie Maryse Condé 20 7.0 On the Horror Scale: Notes on the Haitian Earthquake - Beverly Bell 21 Art in the Time of Catastrophe - Madison Smartt Bell 22 What Is This Earthquake For? - Bill Drummond 23 Took my heart to a Vodou priest, I said, “What can you do Papa? It’s all screwed up…” Leah Gordon 24 Port-au-Prince, I Love You - Matthew J. Smith Contributors

This slim volume paints a valuable portrait of Haiti’s striking past and its painful present, its varying perspectives embodying and conveying a message of hope.

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).

• Introduction: Fall and Rise Martin Munro Part i: Survivor Testimonies 1 Haiti, or the Health of Misery Yanick Lahens 2 Manman, Pa kite yo koupe janm mwen! Mommy, don’t let them cut my leg! Marlène Rigaud Apollon 3 Salvaging - Laura Wagner 4 When There Is No Echo - Jason Herbeck 5 Finding the Words - Michel Le Bris 6 Point of View - Thomas C. Spear 7 Dead-end in Port-au-Prince - Raoul Peck 8 Helping Haiti – Helping Ourselves - Nadève Ménard 9 Eternity Lasted Less than Sixty Seconds … Evelyne Trouillot Part ii: Politics, Culture, and Society 10 Rising from the Ruins: Haiti in Two Hundred Years - J. Michael Dash 11 Religion in Post-earthquake Haiti - Leslie G. Desmangles and Elizabeth McAlister 12 Shaken Ground, Strong Foundations: Honoring the Legacy of Haitian Feminism after the Earthquake - Régine Michelle Jean-Charles 13 Art, Artists, and the Shaking of the Foundations - LeGrace Benson 14 From the Rubble to the Telethon: Music, Religion, and the Haiti Quake - Elizabeth McAlister 15 The Writing of Disaster in Haiti: Signifying Cataclysm from Slave Revolution to Earthquake - Deborah Jenson Part iii: History 16 The Legacies of Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue - John D. Garrigus 17 Reckoning in Haiti: The State and Society since the Revolution - Jean Casimir and Laurent Dubois 18 Uprisings, Insurrections, and Political Movements: Contemporary Haiti and the Teachings of History, 1957–2010 Patrick Bellegarde-Smith Part iv: Haiti and Me 19. Haïti - Chérie Maryse Condé 20 7.0 On the Horror Scale: Notes on the Haitian Earthquake - Beverly Bell 21 Art in the Time of Catastrophe - Madison Smartt Bell 22 What Is This Earthquake For? - Bill Drummond 23 Took my heart to a Vodou priest, I said, “What can you do Papa? It’s all screwed up…” Leah Gordon 24 Port-au-Prince, I Love You - Matthew J. Smith Contributors

This slim volume paints a valuable portrait of Haiti’s striking past and its painful present, its varying perspectives embodying and conveying a message of hope.

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland and Trinidad. His latest academic monograph is The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).

• Introduction: Fall and Rise Martin Munro Part i: Survivor Testimonies 1 Haiti, or the Health of Misery Yanick Lahens 2 Manman, Pa kite yo koupe janm mwen! Mommy, don’t let them cut my leg! Marlène Rigaud Apollon 3 Salvaging - Laura Wagner 4 When There Is No Echo - Jason Herbeck 5 Finding the Words - Michel Le Bris 6 Point of View - Thomas C. Spear 7 Dead-end in Port-au-Prince - Raoul Peck 8 Helping Haiti – Helping Ourselves - Nadève Ménard 9 Eternity Lasted Less than Sixty Seconds … Evelyne Trouillot Part ii: Politics, Culture, and Society 10 Rising from the Ruins: Haiti in Two Hundred Years - J. Michael Dash 11 Religion in Post-earthquake Haiti - Leslie G. Desmangles and Elizabeth McAlister 12 Shaken Ground, Strong Foundations: Honoring the Legacy of Haitian Feminism after the Earthquake - Régine Michelle Jean-Charles 13 Art, Artists, and the Shaking of the Foundations - LeGrace Benson 14 From the Rubble to the Telethon: Music, Religion, and the Haiti Quake - Elizabeth McAlister 15 The Writing of Disaster in Haiti: Signifying Cataclysm from Slave Revolution to Earthquake - Deborah Jenson Part iii: History 16 The Legacies of Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue - John D. Garrigus 17 Reckoning in Haiti: The State and Society since the Revolution - Jean Casimir and Laurent Dubois 18 Uprisings, Insurrections, and Political Movements: Contemporary Haiti and the Teachings of History, 1957–2010 Patrick Bellegarde-Smith Part iv: Haiti and Me 19. Haïti - Chérie Maryse Condé 20 7.0 On the Horror Scale: Notes on the Haitian Earthquake - Beverly Bell 21 Art in the Time of Catastrophe - Madison Smartt Bell 22 What Is This Earthquake For? - Bill Drummond 23 Took my heart to a Vodou priest, I said, “What can you do Papa? It’s all screwed up…” Leah Gordon 24 Port-au-Prince, I Love You - Matthew J. Smith Contributors

This slim volume paints a valuable portrait of Haiti’s striking past and its painful present, its varying perspectives embodying and conveying a message of hope.