Mourning El Dorado : literature and extractivism in the contemporary American tropics /

"Considers how the novels of five contemporary writers from the American tropics--Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum--engage with the legend of El Dorado in light of modern practices for extracting mineral deposits and other natural resources in...

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Main Author: Rogers, Charlotte, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:New World studies.
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Summary:"Considers how the novels of five contemporary writers from the American tropics--Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum--engage with the legend of El Dorado in light of modern practices for extracting mineral deposits and other natural resources in Latin America"--
Physical Description:xiv, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0813942659
0813942667
9780813942650
9780813942667