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7 produkter

1. 

   Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature

   Av Lesley Wylie

   Häftad, 2024

   577 kr

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   The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda’s Canto general, Lesley Wylie’s close study of botanical imagery demonstrates the fundamental …

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   Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks

   Rewriting the Tropics in the novela de la selva

   Av Lesley Wylie

   Häftad, 2026

   526 kr

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   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 …

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   Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics

   Av Lesley Wylie, Lesley Wylie

   Häftad, 2025

   518 kr

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   Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the …

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   Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics

   Av Lesley Wylie

   Inbunden, 2023

   2129 kr

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   Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the …

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   Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks

   Rewriting the Tropics in the novela de la selva

   Av Lesley Wylie

   Inbunden, 2009

   2368 kr

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   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 …

6. 

   Surveying the American Tropics

   A Literary Geography from New York to Rio

   Av Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2013

   2368 kr

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   ‘American Tropics’ refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for …

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   Colombia’s Forgotten Frontier

   A Literary Geography of the Putumayo

   Av Lesley Wylie

   Inbunden, 2013

   2368 kr

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   Coming to prominence during the tropical booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of mass immigration and exile, of subjugation and insurgency, and of violence. By way of a study of literature of and on the Putumayo by Latin American as well as …