CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• ANTHONY CARRIGAN

POETRY

• SHIRANI RAJAPAKSE, Conversations in the Dark
• OLIVE SENIOR, Greenhorn, Hurricane Watch, Volcano

• NIYI OSUNDARE, The Tremor and the Terror, Head in the Sand,

  Stubborn Hope

FICTION

• CHANDANI LOKUGE, Sand Bars of Memory – The Tsunami in Sri Lanka

ARTICLES

• ANTHONY CARRIGAN, Introduction: Representing Catastrophe

• SHARAE DECKARD, ‘Calligraphy of the Wave’: Disaster Representation

  and the Indian Ocean Tsunami

• LIESBETH OUWEHAND, Disastrous Encounters: Photographic Representations

  of Catastrophe in the Dutch East Indies

• MARK D. ANDERSON, Invoking the Evident: Self-Globalization and the

  Irrefutability of the Modern Image in Trujillo’s Disaster Diplomacy

• ALAN RAMÓN WARD, Disaster as Event: Yvonne Weekes’s Volcano

• KASIA MIKA, Recovery Foreclosed: History, Landscape, and Personal

  Intervention in Sandra Marquez Stathis’s Rubble: The Search for a Haitian Boy

• MICHAEL NIBLETT, Time and Tidalectics Wait for No Nam:

  Catastrophe and Creativity in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite

• ILAN KELMAN, Climate Change and Other Catastrophes:

  Lessons from Island Vulnerability and Resilience

• COVER IMAGE, Frantz Zephirin, ‘We Need Help’ (2010)

REVIEWS

• by Matthew Whittle, David Farrier

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS