Lesley Wylie is professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva and Colombia’s Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo. She is assistant editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

In this beautifully written, engaging study, Wylie delves into the presence of plants in Latin American works from the colonial period to the present.

Lesley Wylie is professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva and Colombia’s Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo. She is assistant editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

In this beautifully written, engaging study, Wylie delves into the presence of plants in Latin American works from the colonial period to the present.

Lesley Wylie is professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva and Colombia’s Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo. She is assistant editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

In this beautifully written, engaging study, Wylie delves into the presence of plants in Latin American works from the colonial period to the present.