02730nam 2200697 a 450 991081191700332120240418044858.01-280-49060-897866135858370-8139-3203-3(CKB)2670000000176402(OCoLC)785943545(CaPaEBR)ebrary10554888(SSID)ssj0000606316(PQKBManifestationID)11372085(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606316(PQKBWorkID)10580256(PQKB)10796016(MiAaPQ)EBC3444023(MdBmJHUP)muse4039(Au-PeEL)EBL3444023(CaPaEBR)ebr10554888(CaONFJC)MIL358583(EXLCZ)99267000000017640220110426d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDisaster writing the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America /Mark D. Anderson1st ed.Charlottesville University of Virginia Press20111 online resource (255 p.) New World studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-3197-5 0-8139-3196-7 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.He shows how the political and historical contexts suggest a systematic link between natural disaster and cultural politics.New World studies.Latin American literatureHistory and criticismDisasters in literatureCatastrophes (Geology) in literatureLiterature and societyLatin AmericaNational characteristics in literatureLatin American literatureHistory and criticism.Disasters in literature.Catastrophes (Geology) in literature.Literature and societyNational characteristics in literature.860.9/3556Anderson Mark D.1974-1643092MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811917003321Disaster writing3988112UNINA