Disaster writing : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anderson, Mark D., 1974-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Series:	New World studies.
Subjects:	National characteristics in literature. Literature and society > Latin America. Catastrophes (Geology) in literature. Disasters in literature. Latin American literature > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Approaching disaster
Disaster and the "New patria": Cyclone San Zenón and Trujillo's rewriting of the Dominican Republic
Drought and the literary construction of risk in northeastern Brazil
Volcanic identities: explosive nationalism and the disastered subject in Central American literature
Fault lines: Mexico's 1985 earthquake and the politics of narration
On writing and the nationalization of catastrophe.