| Description |
1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
American tropics |
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American tropics.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Intimate frontiers: a literary geography of the Amazon / Javier Uriarte and Felipe Martínez-Pinzón -- The jungle like a Sunday at home: Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana, and the nationalization of the Amazon / Felipe Martínez-Pinzón -- Hildebrando Fuentes's Peruvian Amazon: national integration and capital in the jungle / Cristóbal Cardemil-Krauze -- Contested frontiers: territory and power in Euclides da Cunha's Amazonian texts / Cinthya Torres -- 'Splendid testemunhos': documenting atrocities, bodies, and desire in Roger Casement's Black Diaries / Javier Uriarte -- A wolf in sheep's clothing: the Cauchero of the Amazonian rubber groves / Leopoldo M. Bernucci -- Endless stories: perspectivism and narrative form in native Amazonian literature / Lúcia Sá -- Malarial philosophy: the Modernista Amazonia of Mário de Andrade / André Botelho and Nísia Trindade Lima -- The politics of vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas's Mal de gente / Lesley Wylie -- Filming modernity in the tropics: the Amazon, Walt Disney, and the antecedents of modernization theory / Barbara Weinstein -- The 'Western baptism' of Yurupary: reception and rewriting of an Amazonian foundational myth / Rike Bolte -- Photography, inoperative ethnography, naturalism: on Sharon Lockhart's Amazon project / Alejandro Quin -- Nostalgia and mourning in Milton Hatoum's Órfãos do Eldorado / Charlotte Rogers |
| Summary |
Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions about the region - its gigantism, its richness, its exceptionality, among other - choosing to approach these rather from quotidian, everyday experiences of a more intimate nature. The multinational, pluriethnic corpus of texts critically examined here, explores a wide range of cultural artifacts including travelogues, diaries, and novels about the rubber boom genocide, as well as Indigenous oral histories, documentary films, and photography about the region. The different voices gathered in this book show that the richness of the Amazon lays not in its natural resources or opportunities for economic exploit, but in the richness of its histories/stories in the form of songs, oral histories, images, material culture, and texts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Culture -- Study and teaching -- Amazon River Region -- 20th century
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: general.
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History of the Americas.
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Cultural studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Intellectual life
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Culture -- Study and teaching
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Civilization
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Literature
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Literature, Modern
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| SUBJECT |
Amazon River Region -- In literature
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Amazon River Region -- Civilization -- 20th century
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Amazon River Region -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Amazon River Region
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe, 1980- editor.
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Uriarte, Javier, editor
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| ISBN |
9781786949721 |
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1786949725 |
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