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Ricia Anne Chansky is Professor of literature at the University
of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. She is the co-editor of the scholarly
journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, a member of the Routledge
Literature Portfolio of journals, and editor of the Routledge
Auto/Biography Studies book series. Her book publications include
the co-edited volumes: The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader,
a Routledge Literary Theory Reader (2016); Life Writing Outside the
Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas (Routledge, 2020); and, the
forthcoming, The Untied States: Unraveling National Identity in the
Twenty-First Century.
and her published work has won awards and includes a book of short
stories, as well as contributions to anthologies, magazines, web
publications and newspapers. She currently teaches in the English
Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez.
“A crucial oral history by Puerto Ricans surviving the twin
disasters of Hurricane María and colonialism.” —Molly
Crabapple, author, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with
Marwan Hisham)
“For a disaster born at the intersection of colonization and the
climate crisis, only a first-person plural account can truly do
justice in a post-tragedy landscape where there has been no
justice. Mi María: Surviving the Storm is a triumph of eyewitness
accounts that centers survivors and tells a three-dimensional truth
that can only be pieced together from multiple perspectives.” —Aya
de León, author, Side Chick Nation
“Through first-person narratives and biographical profiles Mi María
offers a kaleidoscope of experiences and personal stories that take
readers behind the headlines of Hurricane María. The book offers an
important archive of experiences, challenges, and stories that are
otherwise absent from mainstream coverage of Puerto Rico and is
sure to be of interest to both current audiences and future
generations of readers interested in the lived experience of one of
the largest political and environmental disasters in US history.
The chance to hear directly from those left out of national
headlines is at once moving, unsettling, and
eye-opening.” —Yarimar Bonilla, coeditor, Aftershocks of
Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
“Passionate and urgent; heart-wrenching and deeply infuriating. Mi
María holds space for us to process the multiple and ongoing
traumas of Hurricane María—the violence and devastation of the
storm itself, yes, but also the deep-seated traumas of state
failure, colonial neglect, and capitalist corruption Puerto Ricans
found themselves forced to find solutions to while rebuilding their
communities in the aftermath of the storm. These are stories not
just of resilience. They are stories of resistance, solidarity, and
the ethos of mutual aid—the daring to radically reimagine our world
in new ways when confronted with our own survival.” —Sara
Awartani, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights at Harvard
University
“Though the narrators in Mi María endure great hardship, their
stories soar with strength and resolve and love of their fellow
humans. Anyone who loves Puerto Rico must read this book.” —Dave
Eggers, writer, cofounder of Voice of Witness
"Mi María: Surviving the Storm is a collection of electrifying
testimonies from a variety of individuals who bravely survived the
destructive forces of Hurricane María. . . The most striking
element of the testimonies goes beyond the human resilience toward
survival against ravaging natural elements." — Smith
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