Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
Lost Worlds
Latin America and the Imagining of Empire
Av Kevin Foster
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Beskrivning
Think of Latin America and what do you see? Escape? Adventure? Chaos? Oblivion? Lost Worlds explores how these stereotypes came into being and what they tells us about ourselves.Examining a range of texts, from Southey's epics to Naipaul's essays, from Conan Doyle's gentlemen adventurers to Kerouac's restless hipsters, this book reveals the role that Latin America has played in British, US and Australian endeavours in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Over the last 200 years, Latin America has served the West as an imaginary realm where its highest hopes and deepest anxieties might be realised.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2009-09-07
- Mått: 135 x 215 x 23 mm
- Vikt: 455 g
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 280
- Förlag: Pluto Press
- ISBN: 9780745315133
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Kevin Foster teaches in the School of English, Communication and Performance Studies at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Lost Worlds (Pluto, 2009).
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'A lucidly written, illuminating account of how both an imagined and real Latin America has become a privileged symbolic site for working through the crises of national identity of Britain, the United States and Australia'
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