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Jungle Fever - Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives (Paperback)
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Jungle Fever - Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives (Paperback)
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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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