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Disaster writing : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America
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Disaster writing : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / Mark D. Anderson.
ISBN
9780813931968 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0813931967 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780813931975 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0813931975 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Physical Description
x, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2011
Series
New world studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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