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Podcast: New Books in Caribbean Studies
Episode: Hurricanes
Description: Kim talks with Sonya Posmentier about hurricanes.Sonya writes about hurricanes and diaspora in her book, Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.In the episode she references Kamau Brathwaiteâs essay âThe History of the Voiceâ and Rob Nixonâs book Slow Violence, Harvard University Press, 2011.She also talks about a genre of Jamaican dancehall music that grew in the wake of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. To hear some of that music and learn more about the musical resonances of hurricanes, you can read her âHurricane Season Playl...