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Book SynopsisThe sinister “jungle” - that ill-defined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubt - is the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination. In
Jungle Fever, Charlotte Rogers goes deep into five books that first defined the jungle as a violent and maddening place.
Trade Reviewa stunningly erudite and insightful critical and historical interdisciplinary analysis"" -
Hispania""
Jungle Fever takes us on a fascinating excursion into the colonial and postcolonial tropics where we find Conrad and Malraux in the company of Alejo Carpentier, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, and Wilson Harris - with many surprises lurking along the way."" - Vera Kutzinski, author of
Against the American Grain""
Jungle Fever isolates, in the novelistic subgenre of the jungle book, a deep strand involving disease, which is at the source of its creative impulse, and where these adventure novels carry out a compelling critique of modern imperialism. Cutting across the English, Latin American, and French traditions this book is a model of the comparative approach."" - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University, and author of
Myth and Archive
