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Mourning El Dorado : Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rogers, Charlotte, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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? 
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