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Product Identifiers

PublisherVanderbilt University Press

ISBN-10082650647X

ISBN-139780826506474

eBay Product ID (ePID)27062634839

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameEyes on Amazonia : Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectRegional Studies, Imperialism, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorJessica Carey-Webb

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-039664

Reviews"It is no coincidence that the title of Eyes on Amazonia harkens back to Mary Louise Pratt's groundbreaking study on travel writing. This richly researched and beautifully written book illuminates how travelers inscribed empire onto the Amazon River basin through a multilingual corpus that includes works by Henri and Octavie Coudreau, Teddy Roosevelt, C'ndido Rondon, Euclides da Cunha, Mário de Andrade, Theodore Koch-Grünberg, and Richard Evans Schultes. With fresh considerations of the intersections of race, gender, nationality, and coloniality, the analysis insightfully probes the relationship between imperialism and individual positionality that worked in tandem to create a global vision of the region as an extractive zone." -- Amanda M. Smith , author of Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Eyes on Amazonia 1. Gendered Politics of Empire: The Female Explorateur and Visions for the Racial Future of Amazonia 2. Wandering Wildernesses: Race and Masculinity on the Rio Roosevelt 3. A Novice Traveler in a Land Without History: Nationalizing the Brazilian Amazon 4. Learning From the Other: Theodore Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes 5. The Reconfigured Travel Narrative: Indigenous Representation and El abrazo de la serpiente Conclusion: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom Frontier Bibliography Notes Index

SynopsisThe 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.

LC Classification NumberF2546.C246 2024