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
Summary
Annotation In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. Here, the author analyses four natural disasters in Latin America that acquired national significance and symbolism through literary mediation
