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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505 0 |a Introduction: the promise of El Dorado -- From native legend to fictional motif: a brief literary history of El Dorado -- The lost steps to El Dorado: tracing the transformation of the Venezuelan landscape in Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos-- "City of God, city of gold": mystical ecology and environmental exploitation in Wilson Harris's The secret ladder -- Trauma in the tropics: Reconsidering Mario Vargas Llosa's La casa verde -- The "golden halo": adventure and extractivism in Alvaro Mutis's La nieve del Almirante -- Between encante and manoa: creative mourning and critical nostalgia in Milton Hatoum's Órfãos do Eldorado -- Conclusion: beyond the promise of El Dorado? 
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