Disaster writing [electronic resource] : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / Mark D. Anderson.
Series: New World studiesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: x, 241 pISBN:- 9780813931968 (cloth acid-free paper)
- 0813931967 (cloth acid-free paper)
- 9780813931975 (pbk. acid-free paper)
- 0813931975 (pbk. acid-free paper)
- 0813932033 (e-book)
- 9780813932033 (e-book)
- 860.9/3556 22
- PQ7081 .A566 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Approaching disaster -- Disaster and the "New patria": Cyclone San Zen�on 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.
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