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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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Series: | New World studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the promise of El Dorado
- A brief literary history of El Dorado
- Alejo Carpentier's Lost steps to El Dorado
- "City of God, city of gold": Wilson Harris's mystical ecology as a response to human and environmental exploitation in The secret ladder
- Trauma in the tropics: Mario Vargas Llosa's La casa verde
- The golden halo: adventure and extractivism in Alvaro Mutis's La nieve del Almirante
- Creative mourning and critical nostalgia in Milton Hatoum's Orfaos do Eldorado
- Conclusion: beyond the promise of El Dorado?