Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- A Note on Translations
- 1 Introduction: Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon
- 2 The Jungle Like a Sunday at Home: Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana, and the Nationalization of the Amazon
- 3 Hildebrando Fuentes’s Peruvian Amazon: National Integration and Capital in the Jungle
- 4 Contested Frontiers: Territory and Power in Euclides da Cunha’s Amazonian Texts
- 5 ‘Splendid testemunhos’: Documenting Atrocities, Bodies, and Desire in Roger Casement’s Black Diaries
- 6 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Cauchero of the Amazonian Rubber Groves
- 7 Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature
- 8 Malarial Philosophy: The Modernista Amazonia of Mário de Andrade
- 9 The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente
- 10 Filming Modernity in the Tropics: The Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory
- 11 The ‘Western Baptism’ of Yurupary: Reception and Rewriting of an Amazonian Foundational Myth
- 12 Photography, Inoperative Ethnography, Naturalism: On Sharon Lockhart’s Amazon Project
- 13 Nostalgia and Mourning in Milton Hatoum’s Órfãos do Eldorado
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- A Note on Translations
- 1 Introduction: Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon
- 2 The Jungle Like a Sunday at Home: Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana, and the Nationalization of the Amazon
- 3 Hildebrando Fuentes’s Peruvian Amazon: National Integration and Capital in the Jungle
- 4 Contested Frontiers: Territory and Power in Euclides da Cunha’s Amazonian Texts
- 5 ‘Splendid testemunhos’: Documenting Atrocities, Bodies, and Desire in Roger Casement’s Black Diaries
- 6 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Cauchero of the Amazonian Rubber Groves
- 7 Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature
- 8 Malarial Philosophy: The Modernista Amazonia of Mário de Andrade
- 9 The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente
- 10 Filming Modernity in the Tropics: The Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory
- 11 The ‘Western Baptism’ of Yurupary: Reception and Rewriting of an Amazonian Foundational Myth
- 12 Photography, Inoperative Ethnography, Naturalism: On Sharon Lockhart’s Amazon Project
- 13 Nostalgia and Mourning in Milton Hatoum’s Órfãos do Eldorado
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
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- Intimate FrontiersA Literary Geography of the Amazon, pp. 271 - 275Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2019