Colonial Tropes And Postcolonial Tricks Rewriting The Tropics In The Novela De La Selva

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.

שנה

2009

שפה

English

הוצאה

Liverpool University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

173

ISBN

9781846311956

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata