Eyes on Amazonia
eBook - ePub

Eyes on Amazonia

Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Eyes on Amazonia

Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier

About this book

The Amazon extends across nine countries, encompasses forty percent of South America, and hosts four European languages and more than three hundred Indigenous languages and cultures. Eyes on Amazonia is a fascinating exploration of how Latin American, European, and US intellectuals imagined and represented the Amazon region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This multifaceted study, which draws on a range of literary and nonliterary texts and visual sources, examines the complex ways that race, gender, mobility, empire, modernity, and personal identity have indelibly shaped how the region was and is seen. In doing so, the book argues that representations of the Amazon as a region in need of the civilizing influence of colonialism and modernization served to legitimize and justify imperial control.

Eyes on Amazonia operates in cultural geography, ecocriticism, and visual cultural analysis. The diverse and intriguing documents and images examined in this book capture the modernizing project of this region at a crucial juncture in its long history: the early twentieth-century rubber boom.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Eyes on Amazonia
  8. Chapter 1. Gendered Politics of Empire: The Female Explorateur and Visions for the Racial Future of Amazonia
  9. Chapter 2. Wandering Wildernesses: Race and Masculinity on the Rio Roosevelt
  10. Chapter 3. A Novice Traveler in a Land without History: Nationalizing the Brazilian Amazon
  11. Chapter 4. Learning from the Other: Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes
  12. Chapter 5. The Reconfigured Travel Narrative: Indigenous Representation and El abrazo de la serpiente
  13. Conclusion. Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index