Mapping the Amazon: literary geography after the rubber boom

An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, 'Mapping the Amazon' examines how widely read novels from 20th-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Galle...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Amanda M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2024
Ausgabe:paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:American tropics: towards a literary geography
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Zusammenfassung:An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, 'Mapping the Amazon' examines how widely read novels from 20th-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, César Calvo, Márcio Souza, and Mário de Andrade travelled to the Amazonian regions of their respective countries and encountered firsthand a forest divided and despoiled by the spatial logic of extractivism. Writing against that logic, they fill their novels with geographic, human, and ecological realities omitted from official accounts of the region. Though the plots unfold after the height of the Amazonian rubber boom (1850-1920), the authors construct landscapes marked by that first large-scale exploitation of Amazonian biodiversity.
Beschreibung:xiii, 248 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781802075342

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