Disaster writing the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / [electronic resource] :
Mark D. Anderson.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- x, 241 p.
- New World studies .
- New World studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Latin American literature--History and criticism. Disasters in literature. Catastrophes (Geology) in literature. Literature and society--Latin America. National characteristics in literature.