Böcker av Wendy McMahon

A unique resource and captivating collection of poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction, and scientific articles - enhanced with colorful photographs and images - providing storied experiences and critical questions about climate issues, hazards, and disasters, especially hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanoes in the Caribbean.This important contribution to the fertile ground of Caribbean literature enables the reader to view the common thread of disaster from these multiple perspectives and may inspire others to create their own unique accounts of facing disaster and engaging in the process of rebuilding.- Michael Esposito, Cultural Development Consultant, President Raíces Culturales Latinoamericanas, USADisasters do matter, and this superb collection of notes and quotes, questions, poems, and stories from across the Caribbean is a testament to the intensity of human reactions to these life changing events. This literary anthology will enrich the disasters' literature and help engage young people in a topic of personal and professional importance.- Dr. Emily Wilkinson, Senior Research Fellow, ODI Chief Scientific Adviser, CREAD-Dominica Co-Director, Caribbean Resilience and Recovery Knowledge Network

This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland - always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.