Colombia's Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo

Colombia's Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo
ISBN-10
1846319749
ISBN-13
9781846319747
Category
History
Pages
273
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Lesley Wylie

Description

Coming to prominence during the rubber fever of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of political turmoil, a place of mass immigration, exile, subjugation, insurgency, and violence, all of which have fostered a long, international literary history. Colombia's Forgotten Frontier maps a literary map of this history for the first time. Lesley Wylie looks at works by writers from Latin America, the United States, and Europe— including works by Roger Casement, José Eustasio Rivera, and Williams Burroughs—in order to examine Colombia's literary legacy of marginality and conflict.

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