Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva

by Lesley Wylie

The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages'' in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846311950
• ISBN13: 9781846311956
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"