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: Reading the Ruins1. Going Public: The Post-earthquake Essay2. Broken Bodies: Makenzy Orcel, Marvin Victor, and the New Haitian Novel3. Broken Lands: Gary Victor, Kettly Mars, and Post-earthquake Fiction4. Not Writing Disaster: The Earthquake as Non-event in the Haitian Novel 2010-20145. Writing the “Haitian Soul”: Post-earthquake PoetryConclusion: New LandsBibliographyIndex

'This book also speaks broadly to the cultural, political, aesthetic, and historical importance of literature as a valid means of creating knowledge. It offers inspired, articulate reasons as to why Haitian literature, and fiction as a genre, provides invaluable testimony for better understanding countries and their people in difficult times.'Jason Herbeck, French Review

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: Reading the Ruins1. Going Public: The Post-earthquake Essay2. Broken Bodies: Makenzy Orcel, Marvin Victor, and the New Haitian Novel3. Broken Lands: Gary Victor, Kettly Mars, and Post-earthquake Fiction4. Not Writing Disaster: The Earthquake as Non-event in the Haitian Novel 2010-20145. Writing the “Haitian Soul”: Post-earthquake PoetryConclusion: New LandsBibliographyIndex

'This book also speaks broadly to the cultural, political, aesthetic, and historical importance of literature as a valid means of creating knowledge. It offers inspired, articulate reasons as to why Haitian literature, and fiction as a genre, provides invaluable testimony for better understanding countries and their people in difficult times.'Jason Herbeck, French Review

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: Reading the Ruins1. Going Public: The Post-earthquake Essay2. Broken Bodies: Makenzy Orcel, Marvin Victor, and the New Haitian Novel3. Broken Lands: Gary Victor, Kettly Mars, and Post-earthquake Fiction4. Not Writing Disaster: The Earthquake as Non-event in the Haitian Novel 2010-20145. Writing the “Haitian Soul”: Post-earthquake PoetryConclusion: New LandsBibliographyIndex

'This book also speaks broadly to the cultural, political, aesthetic, and historical importance of literature as a valid means of creating knowledge. It offers inspired, articulate reasons as to why Haitian literature, and fiction as a genre, provides invaluable testimony for better understanding countries and their people in difficult times.'Jason Herbeck, French Review