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Author : Milton Hatoum
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847673008
A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado, by Brazil's greatest writer. The Enchanted City has inhabited the fevered dreams of many European navigators and consquisitadores, but all have been unable to find it on the map.
Author : Charlotte Rogers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813942674
What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the "promise of El Dorado"—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado 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. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.
Author : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón,Javier Uriarte
Publisher : American Tropics Towards a Lit
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941831
A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781837582570
Author : Waïl S. Hassan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197688762
Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Arab Brazil is the first book of its kind to highlight the representation of Arab and Muslim immigrants in Brazilian literature and popular culture since the early twentieth century, revealing anxieties and contradictions in the country's ideologies of national identity. Author Waïl S. Hassan analyzes these representations in a century of Brazilian novels, short stories, and telenovelas. He shows how the Arab East works paradoxically as a site of otherness (different language, culture, and religion) and solidarity (cultural, historical, demographic, and geopolitical ties). Hassan explores the differences between colonial Orientalism's binary structure of Self/Other, East/West, and colonizer/colonized, on the one hand; and on the other hand Brazilian Orientalism's tertiary structure, which defines the country's identity in relation to both North and East.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112106758136
Author : Michael O'Hearn
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623702434
Kid Cody finds a map to the fabled city of El Dorado, where the streets are supposedly paved with gold. But others are after the map as well, included his good-for-nothing pa.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Transportation, Automotive
ISBN : MINN:30000011623364
Author : United States. Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Transportation, Automotive
ISBN : CUB:U183029126124
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435027782952
Author : Lawrence B. de Graaf,Kevin Mulroy,Quintard Taylor
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805313
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Author : Mark E. Eberle
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780700624409
As baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game. The early history of baseball in Kansas, chronicled in this book, is the story of those towns and the ballparks they built, of the local fans and teams playing out the drama of the American dream in the heart of the country. Mark Eberle's history spans the years between the Civil War–era and the start of World War II, encapsulating a time when baseball was adopted by early settlers, then taken up by soldiers sent west, and finally by teams formed to express the identity of growing towns and the diverse communities of African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans. As elsewhere in the country, these teams represented businesses, churches, schools, military units, and prisons. There were men's teams and women's, some segregated by race and others integrated, some for adults and others for youngsters. Among them we find famous barnstormers like the House of David, the soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry who played at Fort Wallace in the 1860s, and Babe Didrikson pitching the first inning of a 1934 game in Hays. Where some of these games took place, baseball is still played, and Kansas Baseball, 1858–1941 takes us to nine of them, some of the oldest in the country. These ballparks, still used for their original purpose, are living history, and in their stories Eberle captures a vibrant image of the state's past and a vision of many innings yet to be played—a storied history and promising future that readers will be tempted to visit with this book as an informative and congenial guide.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672536
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
Author : Marc Herman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307427656
The real land of El Dorado, deep in the Amazon rainforest, is a far cry from the mythical city of gold: though its soil could potentially yield billions of dollars, Guyana is a nation of “gilded paupers,” one of the very poorest countries in the western hemisphere. In this adventure-filled narrative, journalist Marc Herman takes us down a supply road in a limping cargo truck, treks into a muggy and muddy mine on foot, and soars above the forest canopy in a skittering plane. He falls in with a rowdy crew of gold miners who measure manliness by the number of times they’ve had malaria, and wear their life savings in the form of oversized rings and huge gold necklaces. He also penetrates the corporate façade of international strip-mining operations, which despite tremendous technological and political power have failed to alleivate the area’s poverty. Searching for El Dorado is an eyeopening look at the scandals, the business, the mythology of gold—reaveling a fascinating, contradictory part of the world and of the human psyche. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307370631
The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the sixteenth century belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay the fabulous kingdom of El Dorado. Two centuries of multinational intrigue followed, personified in the rivalled quest for the mythical kingdom of gold between the aging conquistador Antonio de Berrio and Sir Walter Ralegh, and culminating in the brutal stewardship of Thomas Picton, the English governor put on trial for the torture of a fourteen-year-old mulatto girl. Relating this labyrinthine story with clarity and novelistic drama, V. S. Naipaul accomplishes an unparalleled feat of historical writing.