Language, Literature, and Culture

An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture: Disaster Nation

Document Type

Book

Abstract

This book contrasts Puerto Rico’s eco-political history with its narrative and symbolic routes of disaster, trauma, and resilience, noting points of convergence and divergence. Since hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017 there has been an explosion of creative and critical works that depict and analyze the aftermath of disaster, and this book systematically documents the continuities and discontinuities of how disasters are represented and underrepresented from earlier eras to the present. This book offers a politically-challenging cultural analysis that goes beyond orthodox Puerto Rican cultural thinking. © 2025 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Publication Title

An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture: Disaster Nation

Publication Date

2025

First Page

1

Last Page

218

ISBN

9783032040442

DOI

10.1007/978-3-032-04044-2

Keywords

creatives, cultural analysis, political history, Puerto Rico

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