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In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, the author situates the question of the Caribbean apocalypse in relation to broader, global narratives of the apocalyptic present—notably Slavoj Žižek's Living in the End Times— and traces the evolution of apocalyptic thought in the work of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Michael Dash, David Scott, and others.

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Tropical Apocalypse is a probing and provocative meditation on the place of apocalypse in Haitian experience--understood as both event and the possibility of its expression in the Haitian literary and visual imaginary. With passion and erudition, Martin Munro examines the ecological, historical, political, and human disasters of Haiti and the struggle to work through their traumatic legacy.--Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University, author of Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

Tropical Apocalypse is a fascinating and informative study of recent Haitian cultural representations of a series of natural and man-made disasters. --Mark D. Anderson, University of Georgia

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Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University, USA is editor of Edwidge Danticat: A Reader (Virginia) and author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas.

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