Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
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Author | : Lesley Wylie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : 1846315220 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781846315220 |
Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks by : Lesley Wylie
Book excerpt: 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.