This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American novela de la selva genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of
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, subjugati
Surveying the American Tropics brings together the likes of Peter Hulme, Neil Whitehead, and Richard and Sally Price, among others, to examine the literary and cultural contributions of the American T
