Mourning El Dorado: Literature And Extractivism In The Contemporary American Tropics

Looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics.

• | By (Author): Charlotte Rogers
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0813942659
• | ISBN-13: 9780813942650