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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1. Verfasser: Rogers, Charlotte, 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:New World studies.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0813942675
9780813942674