Disaster writing : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / Mark D. Anderson.

Author: Anderson, Mark D., 1974-

Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Descriptionx, 241 p. ; 23 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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