The Literature of Catastrophe
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5063-4 (ISBN)
Engaging a variety of sources and protagonists, from Simón Bolívar’s manifestoes to Cesar Aira’s use of landscape in his novels, from the revolutionary role mosquitoes had within the Haitian Revolution to the role AIDS played in the writing of Reinaldo Arenas’ posthumous novel, Carlos Fonseca offers an original retelling of this foundational moment, recounting how history has become a site where the modern division between nature and culture collapses.
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 Lágrimas (2015), Museo animal (2017), and the book of essays La lucidez del miope (2017), which won the National Prize for Literature in Costa Rica.
Acknowledgments
1. 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’s El Color del Verano: AIDS and the End(s) of the Immunological State
5. Conclusion: One Final Gust: Macondo and the Aftermaths of Modernity
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.05.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 6 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 426 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-5063-3 / 1501350633 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-5063-4 / 9781501350634 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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