Colombia's forgotten frontier : a literary geography of the Putumayo / Lesley Wylie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wylie, Lesley, author.

Series:

American tropics.

American tropics: towards a literary geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colombian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Colombian literature.

Colombian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Colombian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Putumayo (Colombia : Department)--In literature.

Putumayo (Colombia : Department).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coming to prominence during the tropical booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of mass immigration and exile, of subjugation and insurgency, and of violence. By way of a study of literature of and on the Putumayo by Latin American as well as US and European writers, Colombia's Forgotten Frontier explores the history and enduring significance of this Amazonian border zone, which has been visited both physically and imaginatively by figures such as Roger Casement, José Eustasio Rivera, and William Burroughs. Travel writing, testimony, diaries, letters, journalism, oral history, songs, photographs, and 'pulp' fiction are all considered alongside more conventional forms such as the novel. Whilst geographically peripheral, the Putumayo has played a central role in Colombia and beyond, both historically and, crucial to this study, culturally, producing a literature of extreme experience, marginality, and conflict.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title page ; Dedication; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on translations; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

ISBN:

1-78138-093-7

1-78138-557-2

OCLC:

890980913