Mourning El Dorado by Charlotte Rogers - 9780813942650

Mourning El DoradoLiterature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics\nAuthor(s): Charlotte Rogers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813942650, 978-0813942650\nSynopsis\nWhat 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.\n\nMourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engag.