Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks - Rewriting the Tropics in the 'novela De La Selva'

Informationen zum Autor Lesley Wylie is Senior Research Officer on the AHRC-funded project, 'American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography' at the University of Essex Klappentext This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American "novela de la selva "genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre's derivative nature, "Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks"examines how "novela de la selva"fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perspectives. Analyzing four emblematic novels of the genre, this book considers the crucial place of the jungle as a locus for the contestation of national and literary identity by post-independence Latin American writers. Zusammenfassung The vision of the South American rainforest in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity.

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Wylie, Lesley (School of Modern Languages Wylie
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2009
• EAN: 9781846311956
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-195-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies; Liverpool University Press - L; Liverpool University Press - L; Liverpool Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology