British Representations Of Latin America,Used

British Representations Of Latin America,Used

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Product Description 'Clear and well documented, this is a very important contribution to the rich, varied work on British imperial activities and to postcolonial studies.'Helen M. Cooper, Stony Brook University Ramirez examines British literary representations of Latin America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin American independence. Locating these representations within the political and economic histories of the countries in which they are set, she places works by Sir Walter Ralegh, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Malcolm Lowry, and Graham Greene within a critical context that can best be called Americanist and surveys the prominent themes of these works. She also examines their imperialist impulses and their changing master cultural narratives, from Charles Goulds idea of empire and his faith in commercial development for Latin America in Conrads Nostromo to Lowrys Under the Volcano, a story of a failed and alcoholic English Consul in 1930s Mexico. Americanist literature, as Ramirez sees it, manifests mostly informal aspects of imperialism, reflecting the British desire to invest, develop, map, and catalog in countries as varied as Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Brazil. Ramirez argues that British representations of Latin Americareveal an authorial freedom to advance imperial and commercial projects on one hand, while questioning the English self and sense of strangeness in the New World on the other. Especially in the 19th and 20century works under consideration, she reveals an acute sense of vulnerability, as British power worldwide had begun to crumble. Expanding on the critical conversation surrounding Orientalism and New World Studies, Ramirezs examination of informal British imperialism and the struggle of motives represented in each of the selected narratives opens a fascinating new terrain of texts reflecting the historical relationship between Britain and Latin America. Review 'Clear and well documented, this is a very important contribution to the rich, varied work on British imperial activities and to postcolonial studies.' Helen M. Cooper About the Author Luz Elena Ramirez is associate professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.

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