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Journal Article
The Revelation of Hurricanes in the Camouflaged Caribbean
2017
Overview
The inadequacy of the US government's recovery response left the surviving residents angry as well as traumatized and in the debate that followed-from which we now see the emergence of hurricane studies-the cause of the government's failure also came into focus. [...]from the point of view of the contiguous (or continental) United States, New Orleans, according to Spitzer is \"south of the South.\" Wilson Harris (144-150) has traced the indigenous myth-mutations of hurricanes from Central to South America through the Caribbean: from Quetzalcoatal (the plumed serpent-god of the winds in Mexico), to Yurokon (the mainland Carib spirit of the jungle), Huracan (the Aztec god of the storm) and Kukulkan, the feathered serpent of the Maya. Columbus encountered the force of tropical storms on his second voyage in 1495. [...]as Sharae Deckard says, the word is \"a palimpsest of the long eruptive history of multiple colonizations, dispossessions and exterminations in the Caribbean\" (27). The continuing use of the hurricane in colonialist discourse as a means to focus the region's violent alterity is well documented.1 But, as Deckard says, it retains \"the trace of Amerindian cultures and socio-ecological relations,\" and, \"from the first articulations of Caribbean identity,\" the hurricane has been crucial to the varying poetics of the region (25-45). [...]the eighteenth century, it focused on spectacular but singular events like storms and earthquakes rather than on the broader conceptual terrain of what we now understand as the weather. Yet cartography is particularly challenged by Caribbean space-by its postcolonial liminality or inbetweenness...
