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Colonial tropes and postcolonial tricks: rewriting the tropics in the novela de la selva.

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20060701
Author:Wylie, Lesley

Divina Poesia, [...] tiempo es que dejes ya la culta Europa, que tu nativa rustiquez desama, y dirijas el vuelo adonde te abre el mundo de Colon su grande escena. (1)

The novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel writing. This article, however, argues that novels such as W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions, Jose Eustasio Rivera's La voragine, Romulo Gallegos's Canaima, and Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos played an indispensable role in the imaginative reconfiguration of postcolonial Latin America. Drawing upon Homi K. Bhabha's ...

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