{"product_id":"mi-maria-surviving-the-storm-voices-from-puerto-rico-paperback","title":"Mi María: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRicia Anne Chansky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarci Denesiuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe seventeen oral histories collected in \u003cem\u003eMi María: Surviving the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicia Anne Chansky\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal, \u003cem\u003ea\/b: Auto\/Biography Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, a member of the Routledge Literature Portfolio of journals, and editor of the Routledge Auto\/Biography Studies book series. Her book publications include the co-edited volumes: \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Auto\/Biography Studies Reader, a Routledge Literary Theory Reader (2016)\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLife Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas (Routledge, 2020)\u003c\/em\u003e; and, the forthcoming, \u003cem\u003eThe Untied States: Unraveling National Identity in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarci Denesiuk\u003c\/strong\u003e holds an MA in Creative Writing and English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eFar Away Home\u003c\/em\u003e and her published work has won awards and includes a book of short stories, as well as contributions to anthologies, magazines, web publications and newspapers. She currently teaches in the English Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767925735712,"sku":"9781642595796","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/98ece8590c37be559ac262fa9cc03479.webp?v=1780320629","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mi-maria-surviving-the-storm-voices-from-puerto-rico-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}