Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.