American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography – serie
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15 produkter
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Inbunden, 2015
2368 kr
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On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at …
Between the Bocas
A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad
Av Jak Peake
Inbunden, 2017
2368 kr
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Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being …
On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Häftad, 2018
751 kr
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On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at …
Intimate Frontiers
A Literary Geography of the Amazon
Av Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Javier Uriarte
Inbunden, 2019
2368 kr
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Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions …
Dinner at Gonfarone’s
Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919
Av Peter Hulme
Inbunden, 2019
2693 kr
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The Dinner at Gonfarone’s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest …
Mapping the Amazon
Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom
Inbunden, 2021
2368 kr
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An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, …
Between the Bocas
A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad
Av Jak Peake
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being …
Intimate Frontiers
A Literary Geography of the Amazon
Av Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Javier Uriarte
Häftad, 2022
630 kr
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Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions …
Dinner at Gonfarone’s
Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919
Av Peter Hulme
Häftad, 2022
661 kr
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The Dinner at Gonfarone’s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest …
Mapping the Amazon
Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom
Häftad, 2024
578 kr
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An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as José Eustasio Rivera, Rómulo Gallegos, …
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics
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 …
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 …
Cuba’s Wild East
A Literary Geography of Oriente
Av Peter Hulme
Inbunden, 2011
2368 kr
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Cuba’s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of …
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 …
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 …
