Anderson, Mark D., 1974-

Disaster Writing The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America / [Recurso electrónico] : Mark D. Anderson. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 241 p. ) - New world studies . - New World studies. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Libro Electrónico

9780813932033 0813932033




National characteristics in literature.
Literature and society--Latin America.
Catastrophes (Geology) in literature.
Disasters in literature.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PQ7081 / .A566 2011

860.9/3556