Intimate frontiers : a literary geography of the Amazon /

Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions abo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe, 1980- (Editor ), Uriarte, Javier (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019
Colección:American tropics.
Temas:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Culture > Study and teaching > Amazon River Region > 20th century.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: general.
History of the Americas.
Cultural studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Intellectual life.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Civilization.
Literature.
Literature, Modern.
Amazon River Region > In literature.
Amazon River Region > Civilization > 20th century.
Amazon River Region > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Amazon River Region.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Intimate frontiers: a literary geography of the Amazon / Javier Uriarte and Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
  • The jungle like a Sunday at home: Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana, and the nationalization of the Amazon / Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
  • Hildebrando Fuentes's Peruvian Amazon: national integration and capital in the jungle / Cristóbal Cardemil-Krauze
  • Contested frontiers: territory and power in Euclides da Cunha's Amazonian texts / Cinthya Torres
  • 'Splendid testemunhos': documenting atrocities, bodies, and desire in Roger Casement's Black Diaries / Javier Uriarte
  • A wolf in sheep's clothing: the Cauchero of the Amazonian rubber groves / Leopoldo M. Bernucci
  • Endless stories: perspectivism and narrative form in native Amazonian literature / Lúcia Sá
  • Malarial philosophy: the Modernista Amazonia of Mário de Andrade / André Botelho and Nísia Trindade Lima
  • The politics of vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas's Mal de gente / Lesley Wylie
  • Filming modernity in the tropics: the Amazon, Walt Disney, and the antecedents of modernization theory / Barbara Weinstein
  • The 'Western baptism' of Yurupary: reception and rewriting of an Amazonian foundational myth / Rike Bolte
  • Photography, inoperative ethnography, naturalism: on Sharon Lockhart's Amazon project / Alejandro Quin
  • Nostalgia and mourning in Milton Hatoum's Órfãos do Eldorado / Charlotte Rogers.

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