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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Series: | New World studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813942675 9780813942674 |