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Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Lesley Wylie
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Description for Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Hardcover. The vision of the South American rainforest in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity. Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty ‘savages’ in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular reference to the four emblematic novels of the genre – W. ... Read more
The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty ‘savages’ in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular reference to the four emblematic novels of the genre – W. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool Latin American Studies
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311956
SKU
V9781846311956
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About Lesley Wylie
Lesley Wylie is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester and has published widely on the subject of plants across Latin American culture.
Reviews for Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Wylie’s careful readings of these novelas alongside their many literary precursors and intertexts – from Columbus’s Diarios to early twentieth-century tropical medicine treatises from Spanish America – form a rich historical guide with which to study how these four writers problematise notions of reading and writing from within the postcolonial Latin American nation.
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