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British Representations of Latin America (Hardcover, First)
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British Representations of Latin America (Hardcover, First)
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Ramirez examines British literary representations of Latin America
from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention
to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin
American independence. Locating these representations within the
political and economic histories of the countries in which they are
set, she places works by Sir Walter Ralegh, Joseph Conrad, Arthur
Conan Doyle, Malcolm Lowry, and Graham Greene within a critical
context that can best be called ""Americanist"" and surveys the
prominent themes of these works. She also examines their
imperialist impulses and their changing master cultural narratives,
from Charles Gould's ""idea"" of empire and his faith in commercial
development for Latin America in Conrad's Nostromo to Lowry's Under
the Volcano, a story of a failed and alcoholic English Consul in
1930s Mexico. Americanist literature, as Ramirez sees it, manifests
mostly informal aspects of imperialism, reflecting the British
desire to invest, develop, map, and catalog in countries as varied
as Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Brazil. Ramirez argues that British
representations of Latin America reveal an authorial freedom to
advance imperial and commercial projects on one hand, while
questioning the English self and sense of strangeness in the New
World on the other. Especially in the 19th- and 20-century works
under consideration, she reveals an acute sense of vulnerability as
British power worldwide had begun to crumble. Expanding on the
critical conversation surrounding ""Orientalism"" and ""New World
Studies,"" Ramirez's examination of informal British imperialism
and the struggle of motives represented in each of the selected
narratives opens a fascinating new terrain of texts reflecting the
historical relationship between Britain and Latin America.
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