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Author : Rómulo Gallegos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Canaima written by Rómulo Gallegos and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Domingo A. Medina Dagert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Nature-based Tourism in Canaima National Park, Venezuela and the Changing Resource Relation of the Pemon-Kamaracoto written by Domingo A. Medina Dagert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487816
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Theatre of the Arts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates Wilson Harris’s eightieth birthday and more than fifty years of creative writing. The most original and profound writer of the Caribbean, he has revolutionized the art of fiction and its language. He has himself contributed to this volume, and several Caribbean writers of a younger generation – Cyril Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Andrew Jefferson-Miles, Mark McWatt, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott – pay tribute here to his genius. The essays are by critics from the Caribbean, Britain, the United States and continental Europe who have long admired and explored his work. They cover the various genres of Harris’s writing, his poetry, fiction and criticism, and deal with major aspects of his work, bringing out its relevance to the contemporary context of violence in the world, its modernity, and its contribution to the renewal of the humanities.
Author : Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800855494
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks written by Lesley Wylie and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty ‘savages’ in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular reference to the four emblematic novels of the genre – W. H. Hudson’s Green Mansions [1904], José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine [1924], Rómulo Gallegos’s Canaima [1935], and Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos [1953] – the book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity, harnessing the superabundant tropical vegetation and native myths and customs to forge a descriptive vocabulary which emphatically departed from the reductive categories of European travel writing. Despite being one of the most significant examples of postcolonial literature to emerge from Latin America in the twentieth century, the novela de la selva has, to date, received little critical attention: this book returns a seminal genre of Latin American literature to the centre of contemporary debates about postcolonial identity, travel writing, and imperial landscape aesthetics.
Author : Beatriz Rivera-Barnes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498596495
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures written by Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures retraces the “nature of hatred” and the “hatred of nature” from the earliest traditions of Western literature including Biblical texts, Medieval Spanish literature, early Spanish Renaissance texts, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American literatures. The nature of hate is neither hate in its weakened form, as in disliking or loving less, nor hate in its righteous form, as in “I hate hatred,” rather hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today. The hatred of nature is not only contempt for the natural world, but also the idea of nature hating in return, thus inspiring even more hatred of nature. While some chapters, such as the one dedicated to La Celestina, focus more on the nature of hate and the hatred of love, they do address the hatred of nature, as when Celestina conjures Pluto, who happens to be closer to nature than to Satan. Other chapters, such as the ones dedicated to the Latin American novels set in the jungle, focus more on the hatred of nature but ultimately turn to the nature of hatred by analyzing hatred and the descent into madness. In the final chapters Beatriz Rivera-Barnes simultaneously addresses the nature of hatred and the hatred of nature as well as the ecophilia/ecophobia debate in twentieth-century Latin American literatures and considers, if not an assimilation of hate, possibly the cannibalizing of hate.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1788687019
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Lonely Planet's Wonders of the World written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Antarctica and the Amazon to Victoria Falls and the Great Wall of China, Lonely Planet reveals 101 spectacular sights and how to see them on any budget. Inspiring and practical, with expert advice on how and when to visit, where to stay and a range of itineraries, you'll discover how to visit the world's wonders in a way that suits you.
Author : Charlotte Rogers
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826518311
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Jungle Fever written by Charlotte Rogers and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sinister "jungle"--that ill-defined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubt--is the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination. Films like Apocalypse Now, television shows like Lost, and of course stories like Heart of Darkness all pursue the essential question of why the unknown world terrifies adventurer and spectator alike. In Jungle Fever, Charlotte Rogers goes deep into five books that first defined the jungle as a violent and maddening place. The reader finds urban explorers venturing into the wilderness, encountering and living among the "native" inhabitants, and eventually losing their minds. The canonical works of authors such as Joseph Conrad, Andre Malraux, Jose Eustasio Rivera, and others present jungles and wildernesses as fundamentally corrupting and dangerous. Rogers explores how the methods these authors use to communicate the physical and psychological maladies that afflict their characters evolved symbiotically with modern medicine. While the wilderness challenges Conrad's and Malraux's European travelers to question their civility and mental stability, Latin American authors such as Alejo Carpentier deftly turn pseudoscientific theories into their greatest asset, as their characters transform madness into an essential creative spark. Ultimately, Jungle Fever suggests that the greatest horror of the jungle is the unknown regions of the character's own mind.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Personal, Societal, and Ecological Values of Wilderness written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Harrison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230842
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)
Download or read book AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment written by Paul Harrison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: This volume discusses and illustrates the effects of the world's population on natural resources, land use, atmosphere, chemicals, wastes, ecosystems, and biodiversity. It is filled with high-quality maps, charts, and informative illustrations."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002
Author : Michael Sollars
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108362
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel written by Michael Sollars and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jenni Maria Lehtinen
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1907322795
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Narrative and National Alleghory in Rómulo Gallegos's Venezuela written by Jenni Maria Lehtinen and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venezuela's preeminent educator, politician, and most important author Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) left a lasting imprint on how Venezuelans conceive of their national history and identity. Jenni Lehtinen offers the first full-length study of Gallegos's later Venezuelan novels, 'Canaima' (1935), 'Pobre negro' (1937), and 'Sobre la misma tierra' (1943), which have been up to now eclipsed by the critical attention devoted to 'Doña Bárbara' (1929). By combining close-readings organized around national allegory and narrative structure with discussions about Gallegos's socio-political essays, the study reveals previously ignored, radical developments in the Venezuelan author's ideologies. Through her bold reinterpretation of the later novels, Lehtinen reveals Gallegos as a far more innovative writer than has been traditionally appreciated. Jenni Lehtinen completed her doctoral studies in Spanish American literature at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where she has held various teaching posts and lectured on Nation and Narration.
Author : Amanda M. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 180034841X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Mapping the Amazon written by Amanda M. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as Jos� Eustasio Rivera, R�mulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, C�sar Calvo, M�rcio Souza, and M�rio de Andrade traveled to the Amazonian regions of their respective countries and encountered firsthand a forest divided and despoiled by the spatial logic of extractivism. Writing against that logic, they fill their novels with geographic, human, and ecological realities omitted from official accounts of the region. Though the plots unfold after the height of the Amazonian rubber boom (1850-1920), the authors construct landscapes marked by that first large-scale exploitation of Amazonian biodiversity. The material practices of rubber extraction repeat in the stories told about the removal of other plants, seeds, and mineral from the forest as well as its conversion into farmland. The counter-discursive impulse of each novel comes into dialogue with various modernizing projects that carve Amazonia into cultural and economic spaces: border commissions, extractive infrastructure, school geography manuals, Indigenous education programs, and touristic propaganda. Even the novel maps studied have blind spots, though, and Mapping the Amazon considers the legacy of such unintentional omissions today.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal, Societal, and Ecological Values of Wilderness: Bangalore, India, October 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405381221
Total Pages : 2353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to South America On a Budget written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 2353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget is now available in a new ePub format. It is the definitive guide to making the most of this exotic region without breaking the bank. Backpackers, career-breakers, gap year travellers and those who want more bang for their buck, will find in-depth budget information for all twelve South American countries and every aspect of travel. From hotels, hostels and restaurants to special events, festivals and adrenalin-pumping outdoor activities, this guide is packed with the best budget information. You'll find “Treat Yourself” boxes that feature great places and things worth splashing out on and also a full-introduction with highlights for every country. There are reviews and recommendations for night-life, shopping, markets and entertainment, as well as useful words and phrases in every language and detailed maps for hundreds of locations. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget.
Author : Marilyn Lazzari-Wing
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465349316
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Blue Skies, Green Hell written by Marilyn Lazzari-Wing and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot’s wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no man’s land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn’t be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.
Author : Lucy Bryson
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1848367465
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to South America On A Budget written by Lucy Bryson and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on traveling in South America including how best to get around, culture and etiquette, and a variety of accomodations.
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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1409334481
Total Pages : 1505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to South America On a Budget written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in ePub format. The new, full-color Rough Guide to South America on a Budget is the ultimate guide to traveling the continent and getting the most value for every dollar, peso, real, or sol. Detailed color maps and in-depth coverage of how to get around go hand-in-hand with suggested itineraries and authoritative accounts of every attraction. Eleven chapters include all the South American countries and feature first-hand reviews of affordable accommodation, cheap places to eat, and laid-back bars. The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget is packed with epic road trips, adventure activities, ancient ruins, beach hideaways, wildlife watching, dynamic cities, and all the best festivals. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget.
