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This essay examines metonym as a specific move present in disaster narratives of the Galveston Storm of 1900 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Metonyms reveal the nature of the human/ruin relationship resulting from natural disasters. This essay also contributes to the development of a lexicon for describing disaster life writing.
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