Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks

Author: Lesley Wylie

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1846311950

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This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American novela de la selva genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre’s derivative nature, Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks examines how novela de la selva fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perspectives. Analyzing four emblematic novels of the genre, this book considers the crucial place of the jungle as a locus for the contestation of national and literary identity by post-independence Latin American writers.

A Study Guide for "Postcolonialism"
A Study Guide for

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1410355721

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A Study Guide for "Postcolonialism," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.

The Postcolonial Exotic
The Postcolonial Exotic

Author: Graham Huggan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780415250337

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Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.