Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
This chapter shows that the legacy of colonial travel writing in Latin America was not suppressed but became a catalyst for the self-imaginings of the postcolonial writer. Through their selective redrafting of European travel writing, the authors of the novela de la selva show that remembering the past is not just a practice of cerebral recollection; remembering or re-membering entails a process of re-assemblage and of radical re-fashioning.
Keywords: colonial travel writing, self-imagining, postcolonial writers, novela de la selva, remembering
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