The Future of the Other Amazon: Social – Ecological Adaptation and Literature
AB-4052 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, United StatesSpeaker: Jorge Marcone, Rutgers University. Abstract: National imaginaries of the so-called Andean countries show a consistent preference for partial representations of the Amazon. This is true as well of images of Amazonia globally. Literary studies, surprisingly, are responsible for this incompleteness. Indigenous art, nevertheless, flourishes in interculturalism. And the archive of 20th-century non-indigenous Amazonian fiction proves to be a site ...