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Mapping the Amazon - Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom (Hardcover)
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Mapping the Amazon - Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom (Hardcover)
Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, 8
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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
Jose Eustasio Rivera, Romulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar
Calvo, Marcio Souza, and Mario de Andrade travelled 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 Amazon rubber boom (1850-1920), the authors construct
landscapes marked by that first large-scale exploitation of
Amazonian biodiversity. The material practices of rubber extraction
resurface in the stories told about the removal of other plants,
seeds, and minerals from the forest as well as its conversion into
farmland. Smith places the counter-discursive impulses of each
novel in 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, however, have blind spots, and Mapping the Amazon
considers the legacy of such unintentional omissions today.
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