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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"tropicality"”.
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Civilized people in uncivilized places : rubber, race, and civilization during the Amazonian rubber boom
… powerful discourse historian David Arnold calls tropicality. As Europe’s interaction with the tropical world increased and its need for tropical resources grew, tropicality became a powerful tool for legitimizing European interference in and exploitation of the tropics. Embedded in the language …
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A Geocritical Approach to Coloniality and Aesthetics: Mapping the Spatial Narratives of the Amazon Basin
… writing, science fiction and cinema of Amazon’s tropicality and its enduring effects on spatial cartography. In addressing Western representations of the jungle terrain, this paper focuses on the dichotomous relationship between the metropolitan center and the colonial outer-periphery exemplified …
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True love stories : the tropical production and authorization of meaning
… love is the tropical discourse that denies its tropicality, for modern love is love that claims that it is real. The credibility of this fiction can only be maintained through a puissant regime of truth, one which aligns love with a narrow rhetoric of Nature and mystery: "Love is just that way;" …