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Colonial tropes and postcolonial tricks : rewriting the tropics in the novela de la selva /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool [England] :
Liverpool University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Liverpool Latin American studies ;
new ser., 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (173 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846315220 1846315220 |