Disaster writing
Subtitle: the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America
By: Mark D. Anderson
Series: New world studies; New World studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780813931968; 9780813931975; 9780813932033
Subjects: National characteristics in literature; Disasters in literature; Catastrophes (Geology) in literature; Literature and society; Latin American literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching disaster; title: Disaster and the "New patria": Cyclone San Zenón and Trujillo's rewriting of the Dominican Republic; title: Drought and the literary construction of risk in northeastern Brazil; title: Volcanic identities: explosive nationalism and the disastered subject in Central American literature; title: Fault lines: Mexico's 1985 earthquake and the politics of narration; title: On writing and the nationalization of catastrophe.