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Disaster Writing : The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America - Mark D. Anderson

Disaster Writing

The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America

By: Mark D. Anderson

Hardcover | 17 October 2011

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In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. In Disaster Writing, Mark D. Anderson analyzes four natural disasters in Latin America that acquired national significance and symbolism through literary mediation: the 1930 cyclone in the Dominican Republic, volcanic eruptions in Central America, the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, and recurring drought in northeastern Brazil.

Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the disaster narratives, Anderson explores concepts such as the social construction of risk, landscape as political and cultural geography, vulnerability as the convergence of natural hazard and social marginalization, and the cultural mediation of trauma and loss. He shows how the political and historical contexts suggest a systematic link between natural disaster and cultural politics.

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"Beyond the comparative analysis, this is an important resource for readers interested in the interconnections of textual/cultural production and sociopolitical action in times of national catastrophe, particularly in Latin America."

-- "CHOICE"

A highly intelligent and quite fascinating study of the way in which natural disaster has been handled in a specific range of Latin American writing. Well researched, documented, and organized, and superbly written.

--David William Foster, Arizona State University

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