Lesley Wylie
Colonial Tropes And Postcolonial Tricks Rewriting The Tropics In The Novela De La Selva
Lesley Wylie · 2009
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 173
- ISBN
- 9781846311956
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