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Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon(6 American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography)

Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon(6 American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography)


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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.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Intimate Frontiers Javier Uriarte and Felipe Martinez-Pinzon 2. The Jungle Like a Sunday at Home': Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana and the Nationalization of the Amazon Felipe Martinez-Pinzon 3. Hildebrando Fuentes's Peruvian Amazon: National Integration and Capital in the Jungle Cristobal Cardemil-Krauze 4. Contested Frontiers: On Cartographical Knowledge and Power in Euclides da Cunha's Amazonian Texts Cinthya Torres 5. Splendid testemunhos': Bodily Pain and Pleasure in Roger Casement's Black Diaries Javier Uriarte 6. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The cauchero of the Amazonian Rubber Groves Leopoldo M. Bernucci 7. Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature Lucia Sa 8. `Malarial Philosophy': the Modernist Amazonia of Mario de Andrade Andre Botelho and Nisia Trindade Lima 9. The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas's Mal de gente Lesley Wylie 10. Filming Modernity in the Tropics: the Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory Barbara Weinstein 10. The `Western Baptism' of Yurupary: Reception and Rewriting of an Amazonian Foundational Myth Rike Bolte 11. "Photography, Inoperative Ethnography, Naturalism: On Sharon Lockhart's Amazon Project" Alejandro Quin 12. Nostalgia and Mourning in Milton Hatoum's Orfaos do Eldorado Charlotte Rogers

About the Author :
Felipe Martinez-Pinzon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. Javier Uriarte is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781786941831
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 6 American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 178694183X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2019
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: A Literary Geography of the Amazon


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