Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks Rewriting the Tropics in the novela de la selva / Wylie, Lesley

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wylie, Lesley, author.

Series:

Liverpool Latin American studies ; 10

Liverpool Latin American Studies 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2009

Summary:

The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages' in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular reference to the four emblematic novels of the genre - W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions [1904], José Eustasio Rivera's La vorágine [1924], Rómulo Gallegos's Canaima [1935], and Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos [1953] - the book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity, harnessing the sup... Publisher description

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781800855496

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access