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Mourning El Dorado - Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics (Hardcover)
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Mourning El Dorado - Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics (Hardcover)
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What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the
mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers
argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the
reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South
America during the colonial period inaugurated the ""promise of El
Dorado""-the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the
tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over
the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of
natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that
characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado looks at how
fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with
the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as
the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has
not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics.
While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in
environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and
forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the
fiction of five writers-Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario
Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum-criticizes extractive
practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of
wealth and happiness.
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