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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lesley Wylie |
ISBN: | 9781846319747 1846319749 |
OCLC Number: | 865655087 |
Language Note: | In English; occasional phrases in Spanish with English translations. |
Description: | ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on translations -- Introduction: Columbia's forgotten frontier -- 1. Geographies of violence: War reporting, 1990-2012 -- 2. Green mansions to green hell: Travel writing, 1874-1907 -- 3. No-man's land: Testimonial literature of the rubber boom -- 4. 'Exotic strangers': the native body in text and image, 1911 and 1969 -- 5. Frontier fictions: 'la novela de la selva', 1924 and 1933 -- 6. The front line: War writing, 1933 -- 7. 'Fragments of things': the aesthetics of 'yagé' -- 8. Oil and blood: Pulp fiction of the twenty-first century. |
Series Title: | American tropics. |
Responsibility: | Lesley Wylie. |
Abstract:
The first literary geography of the Putumayo, exploring its history and enduring significance through literature of and on this Colombian region by Latin American, US and European writers.
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Colombia's Forgotten Frontier is a well-researched and readable book that constitutes an important addition to the literary and historical scholarship not only on the Colombian Putumayo, but also on the broader Amazon region. * Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 46 * Read more...
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