Mapping the Amazon : literary geography after the rubber boom /

By tracing the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read twentieth-century novels by José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, César Calvo, Márcio Souza, and Mário de Andrade have b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Amanda M., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Series:American tropics ; 8.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Latin American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Rubber industry and trade in literature.
Roman latino-américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
Latin American fiction.
Literature.
Amazon River Region > In literature.
Amazon River Region.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reading Maps with La vorágine : Cartographic Illusion on the Río Negro
  • Sensing Like a Shaman, Seeing Like a State: Guayana According to Rómulo Gallegos
  • The Upper Marañón, the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and the Nobel Laureate
  • Extractivism in Iquitos: From Rubber to Ayahuasca Literature
  • The Remains of Modern(ista) Export Routes along the Madeira and the Mamoré.

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