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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lesley Wylie |
ISBN: | 9781846315220 1846315220 |
OCLC Number: | 940068025 |
Notes: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Mar 2013). |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Colonial Trophes and Postcolonial Tricks2. Tropical Nature and Landscape Aesthetics3. Salvaging the Savage4. Paradise Lost: Wilderness and the Limits of Western Escapism5. Jungle Fever: Degeneration as a Trop[olog]ical DiseaseConclusionBibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | Lesley Wylie. |
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Wylie's careful readings of these novelas alongside their many literary precursors and intertexts - from Columbus's Diariosto early twentieth-century tropical medicine treatises from Spanish America - form a rich historical guide with which to study how these four writers problematise notions of reading and writing from within the postcolonial Latin American nation. * Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 30, No. 4 * Read more...

