Euan munro biography of martin

In Omens of Adversitythe anthropologist David Scott writes that the collapse of the 1983 Grenada revolution, and the subsequent U.S.

invasion, “constitute a watershed event in the generational experience of time and history—a traumatic ending and an aftermath without end.” Sadly this acute sense of disappointment and exhaustion is not a unique event in Caribbean history, and each generation can locate their own trauma, from the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution to the Haitian revolt of 1804.

Martin Munro’s Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Timesis a study of the literary and cinematic works that take as their theme this “aftermath without end.” “The apocalyptic narrative,” Munro writes, “is generated as it were from the inside, as a means of understanding (and surviving) the particular movements of history that have created the disasters of the present.” These disasters can be