| Contents |
Introduction: Radical Landscapes -- 2. Earthquakes: The Shaky Grounds of Latin American History -- Aftershock: Cesar Aira's Rugendas: Photographing the Earthquake -- 3. Volcanoes: Emergencies of an Archaeological Modernity -- Aftershock: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano: On Clouds, Telegraphs and Volcanoes -- 4. Epidemics: Virality, Immunity and the Outbreak of Modern Sovereignty -- Aftershock: Reinaldo Arenas' El color del verano: AIDS and the End(s) of the Immunological Paradigm -- 5. Conclusion: One Final Gust: Macondo and the Aftermaths of Modernity. |
| Abstract |
"Through a study of literary representations of catastrophic figures, this book examines how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Spanish American Wars of Independence"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Fonseca, Carlos The Literature of Catastrophe : Nature, Disaster and Revolution in Latin America New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional,c2020 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781501350658 |
| ISBN | 150135065X |
| ISBN | 9781501350641 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1501350641 (electronic bk.) |
