Colonial tropes and postcolonial tricks: Rewriting the tropics in the no vela de la selva

Modern Language Review

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 728-742

  Wylie, Lesley ^a  

^a EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 43249158184     PISSN: 00267937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20466906     Document Type: Article

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2. See also my article 'Hearts of Darkness: The Celebration of Otherness in the Latin American novela de la sella', Romance Studies, 23 (2005), 105-16
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4. Peter Beardsell, Europe and Latin America: Returning the Gaze (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), argues that Latin America has been placed on the margins of the postcolonial debate by the anglophone world
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15. Much has been written about the unreliability of the narrator of José Eustasio Rivera's La vorágine in particular; see, for example, Joan R. Green, 'La estructura del narrador y el modo narrativo de La vorágine', Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 205 (1967), 101-07
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19. Eduardo Neale-Silva, 'The Factual Bases of La vorágine', PMLA, 54 (1939), 316-31, has established the sources behind Rivera's account of the rubber industry
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40. Cited in Bhabha, p. 85
41. Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 8