Disaster writing the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America /

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Main Author: Anderson, Mark D., 1974-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Series:New World studies.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.