Colombia's forgotten frontier a literary geography of the Putumayo / Lesley Wylie.

Author/creator Wylie, Lesley
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLiverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Descriptionix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesAmerican tropics: towards a literary geography
American tropics. UNAUTHORIZED
Abstract "Coming to prominence during the tropical booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of mass immigration and exile, of subjugation and insurgency, and of violence. By way of a study of literature of and on the Putumayo by Latin American as well as US and European writers, Colombia's Forgotten Frontier explores the history and enduring significance of this Amazonian border zone, which has been visited both physically and imaginatively by figures such as Roger Casement, José Eustasio Rivera, and William Burroughs. Travel writing, testimony, diaries, letters, journalism, oral history, songs, photographs, and 'pulp' fiction are all considered alongside more conventional forms such as the novel. Whilst geographically peripheral, the Putumayo has played a central role in Colombia and beyond, both historically and, crucial to this study, culturally, producing a literature of extreme experience, marginality, and conflict"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 234-251) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageIn English; occasional phrases in Spanish with English translations.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013498509
ISBN9781846319747 (cased)
ISBN1846319749 (cased)

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