Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on translations
- Introduction: Colombia's forgotten frontier
- 1 Geographies of violence: war reporting, 1990–2012
- 2 Green mansions to green hell: travel writing, 1874–1907
- 3 No-man's land: testimonial literature of the rubber boom
- 4 ‘Exotic strangers’: the native body in text and image, 1911 and 1969
- 5 Frontier fictions: La novela de la selva, 1924 and 1933
- 6 The front line: war writing, 1933
- 7 ‘Fragments of things’: the aesthetics of yagé
- 8 Oil and blood: pulp fiction of the twenty-first century
- Bibliography
- Index
A note on translations
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on translations
- Introduction: Colombia's forgotten frontier
- 1 Geographies of violence: war reporting, 1990–2012
- 2 Green mansions to green hell: travel writing, 1874–1907
- 3 No-man's land: testimonial literature of the rubber boom
- 4 ‘Exotic strangers’: the native body in text and image, 1911 and 1969
- 5 Frontier fictions: La novela de la selva, 1924 and 1933
- 6 The front line: war writing, 1933
- 7 ‘Fragments of things’: the aesthetics of yagé
- 8 Oil and blood: pulp fiction of the twenty-first century
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Colombia's Forgotten FrontierA Literary Geography of the Putumayo, pp. ix - xPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013