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Mourning El Dorado : literature and extractivism in the contemporary American tropics / Charlotte Rogers.
Van Pelt Library PN849.L29 R64 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Charlotte, 1979- author.
- Series:
- New World studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and society.
- History.
- Mineral industries.
- Latin America.
- Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Latin American fiction.
- El Dorado in literature.
- Mineral industries--Latin America.
- Literature and society--Latin America--History.
- Natural resources--Latin America.
- Natural resources.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Considers how the novels of five contemporary writers from the American tropics--Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum--engage with the legend of El Dorado in light of modern practices for extracting mineral deposits and other natural resources in Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the promise of El Dorado
- A brief literary history of El Dorado
- Alejo Carpentier's Lost steps to El Dorado
- "City of God, city of gold": Wilson Harris's mystical ecology as a response to human and environmental exploitation in The secret ladder
- Trauma in the tropics: Mario Vargas Llosa's La casa verde
- The golden halo: adventure and extractivism in Alvaro Mutis's La nieve del Almirante
- Creative mourning and critical nostalgia in Milton Hatoum's Orfaos do Eldorado
- Conclusion: beyond the promise of El Dorado?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rogers, Charlotte, 1979- author. Mourning El Dorado
- ISBN:
- 9780813942650
- 0813942659
- 9780813942667
- 0813942667
- OCLC:
- 1057294380
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