Disaster writing : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / / Mark D. Anderson.

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Superior document:New World studies
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:New World studies.
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Physical Description:x, 241 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Approaching disaster
  • Disaster and the "New patria": Cyclone San Zenon 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.