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Author Foster, Kevin, 1961-

Title Lost worlds : Latin America and the imagining of empire / Kevin Foster
Published London ; New York : Pluto, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations
Contents News from nowhere -- Adventures and anxieties -- The last of England -- South of the border -- Dreaming of Pelé -- Fearful symmetry
Summary Think of Latin America and what do you see? Escape? Adventure? Chaos? Oblivion? In Lost Worlds Kevin Foster explores how these and other stereotypes about the continent came into being and what their continuing currency tells us about ourselves
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-247) and index
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In Academic Library
SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Social sciences.
social sciences.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
American literature
English literature
Literature
Public opinion
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Literatur
Kulturkrise
SUBJECT Latin America -- In literature
Latin America -- Foreign public opinion
Subject Latin America
Englisches Sprachgebiet
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009504285
ISBN 9781849640718
1849640718