Orphans Of Eldorado

Author : Milton Hatoum
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847673007
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphans of Eldorado written by Milton Hatoum and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0813942675
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning El Dorado written by Charlotte Rogers and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael O'Hearn
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1623702437
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The El Dorado Map written by Michael O'Hearn and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
Publisher : American Tropics Towards a Lit
ISBN 13 : 178694183X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Frontiers written by Felipe Martínez-Pinzón and published by American Tropics Towards a Lit. This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1837582572
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Brazil written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Waïl S. Hassan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197688764
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab Brazil written by Waïl S. Hassan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monthly Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Baroness Emma Orczy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781686303890
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Dorado written by Baroness Emma Orczy and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471120384
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

Author : Lloyd Alexander
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780141304632
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The El Dorado Adventure written by Lloyd Alexander and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil villains, wild chases, comic style. 9 yrs+