Description
Through a study of literary representations of catastrophic figures, this book examines how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence.
About the Author
Carlos Fonseca is Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Coronel Lagrimas (2015), Museo animal (2017), and the book of essays La lucidez del miope (2017), which won the National Prize for Literature in Costa Rica.
Reviews
In this beautifully written book Carlos Fonseca offers a forceful account of what he calls the catastrophic paradigm of history in Latin America, proceeding by way of shock and aftershock to present ways in which writers have coped with three types of disaster or catastrophe: earthquakes, volcanic explosions, and epidemics. This is a must-read for literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists alike. * Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, USA, and author of Marx and Freud in Latin America (2012) *
The Literature of Catastrophe sheds new light on catastrophe as a literary subject and pervasive trope in Latin American cultural history. Fonseca's daring hypothesis on catastrophe as the point of disruption that unsettles the progressive ordering of time and history is particularly effective. His intervention in the ongoing debate on the Anthropocene and our planet's disjointed times is of utmost relevance. * Julio Ramos, Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author of Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (1989, 2001) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501350634
Author Dr. Carlos Fonseca
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 426g