Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva

(Part of the Liverpool Latin American Studies Series)

by Lesley Wylie

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1846311950

ISBN13:9781846311956

Release Date:July 2009

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"

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Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva

(Part of the Liverpool Latin American Studies Series)

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