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Author Wylie, Lesley, author.

Title Colombia's forgotten frontier : a literary geography of the Putumayo / Lesley Wylie.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American tropics: towards a literary geography
American tropics.
Summary "Coming to prominence during the tropical booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of mass immigration and exile, of subjugation and insurgency, and of violence. By way of a study of literature of and on the Putumayo by Latin American as well as US and European writers, Colombia's Forgotten Frontier explores the history and enduring significance of this Amazonian border zone, which has been visited both physically and imaginatively by figures such as Roger Casement, José Eustasio Rivera, and William Burroughs. Travel writing, testimony, diaries, letters, journalism, oral history, songs, photographs, and 'pulp' fiction are all considered alongside more conventional forms such as the novel. Whilst geographically peripheral, the Putumayo has played a central role in Colombia and beyond, both historically and, crucial to this study, culturally, producing a literature of extreme experience, marginality, and conflict"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-251) and index.
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Language In English; occasional phrases in Spanish with English translations.
Subject Colombian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Colombian literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Colombian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Colombian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Putumayo (Colombia : Department) -- In literature.
Chronological Term 1800-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Wylie, Lesley. Colombia's forgotten frontier 9781846319747 (OCoLC)865655087
ISBN 9781781380932 (electronic book)
1781380937 (electronic book)
9781781385579 (electronic book)
1781385572 (electronic book)
9781846319747
1846319749