Introduction : fall and rise / Martin Munro
pt. I. Survivor testimonies : 1. Haiti, or the health of misery / Yanick Lahens
2. Manman, Pa kite yo koupe janm mwen! Mommy, don't let them cut my leg! / Marlène Rigaud Apollon
3. Salvaging / Laura Wagner
4. When there is no echo / Jason Herbeck
5. Finding the words / Michel Le Bris
6. Point of view / Thomas C. Spear
7. Dead-end in Port-au-prince / Raoul Peck
9. Eternity lasted less than sixty seconds
pt. II. Politics, culture, and society : 10. Rising from the ruins : Haiti in two hundred years / J. Michael Dash
11. Religion in post-earthquake Haiti / Leslie G. Desmangles and Elizabeth McAlister
12. Shaken ground, strong foundations : honoring the legacy of Haitian feminism after the earthquake / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
13. Art, artists, and the shaking of the foundations / LeGrace Benson
14. From the rubble to the telethon : music, religion, and the Haiti quake / Elizabeth McAlister
The writing of disaster in Haiti : signifying cataclysm from the slave revolution to earthquake / Deborah Jenson
pt. III. History : 16. The legacies of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue / John D. Garrigus
17. Reckoning in Haiti : the state and society since the revolution / Jean Casimir and Laurent Dubois
18. Uprisings, insurrections, and political movements : contemporary Haiti and the teachings of history, 1957-2010 / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
pt. IV. Haiti and me : 19. Haïti chérie / Maryse Condé
20. 7.0 on the horror scale : notes on the Haitian earthquake / Beverly Bell
21. Art in the time of catastrophe / Madison Smart Bell
22. What is the earthquake for? / Bill Drummond
23. Took my heart to a Vodou priest, I said, "What can you do papa? It's all screwed up
24. Port-au-Prince, I love you / Matthew J. Smith.