UID:
almafu_9961565814202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:
1-80085-245-2
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1-80034-547-X
Serie:
American tropics. Towards a literary geography ; 8
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Also issued in print: 2021.
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-80034-841-X
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Romanistik
DOI:
10.3828/9781800348417
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