Colombias Forgotten Frontier - A Literary Geography of the Putumayo

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Acknowledgements Introduction, Colombia's forgotten frontier 1. Geographies of violence: war correspondence, 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 frontline: war writing, 1933 7. 'Fragments of things': the aesthetics of yage 8. Oil and blood: pulp fiction of the 21st century Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Lesley Wylie, Lesley (School of Modern Languages Wylie
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2013
• EAN: 9781846319747
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-974-7
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography; American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography; American Tropics Towards a Lit
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales