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

"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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wylie, Lesley (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Español
Publié: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Collection:American tropics.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Columbia's forgotten frontier
  • 1. Geographies of violence: war reporting, 1990-2012
  • 2. Green mansions to green hell: travel writing, 1874-1907
  • 3. No-man's land: testimonial literature of the rubber boom
  • 4. 'Exotic strangers': the native body in text and image, 1911 and 1969
  • 5. Frontier fictions: 'la novela de la selva', 1924 and 1933
  • 6. The front line: war writing, 1933
  • 7. 'Fragments of things': the aesthetics of 'yagé'
  • 8. Oil and blood: pulp fiction of the twenty-first century.