This book analyzes how disasters have been represented (or not, and if so why) in Puerto Rican literature, history and the arts. It explores interwoven notions of nationhood, disaster, trauma, and resilience in Puerto Rican culture using ecocritical tools: interdisciplinarity, ecofeminist analysis, close readings, and postcolonial scrutiny with a focus on environmental justice. It explores the construction of a national imagination in five plus centuries of culture in Puerto Rico, a nation with unique convergences of calamities: cyclonic location and geological instability, as well as continuous colonialism. Using scientific and historical data delve into the themes and threads in cultural production centered on representations (or lack thereof) of hurricanes and earthquakes (a process we label ecoerasure).