Introduction: the promise of El Dorado -- A brief literary history of El Dorado -- Alejo Carpentier's Lost steps to El Dorado -- "City of God, city of gold": Wilson Harris's mystical ecology as a response to human and environmental exploitation in The secret ladder -- Trauma in the tropics: Mario Vargas Llosa's La casa verde -- The golden halo: adventure and extractivism in Alvaro Mutis's La nieve del Almirante -- Creative mourning and critical nostalgia in Milton Hatoum's Orfaos do Eldorado -- Conclusion: beyond the promise of El Dorado?
Summary:
"Considers how the novels of five contemporary writers from the American tropics--Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum--engage with the legend of El Dorado in light of modern practices for extracting mineral deposits and other natural resources in Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.
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