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

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rogers, Charlotte, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Natural resources.
Mineral industries.
Literature and society.
Latin American fiction.
El Dorado in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
1900 - 1999.
Ressources naturelles > Amerique latine.
Litterature et societe > Amerique latine > Histoire.
Mines > Industrie > Amerique latine.
Eldorado dans la litterature.
Roman latino-americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Natural resources > Latin America.
Literature and society > Latin America > History.
Mineral industries > Latin America.
Latin American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Latin America.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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 Latin America"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9780813942674

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