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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 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 a 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 . . . a stunningly erudite and insightful critical and historical interdisciplinary analysis. --Hispania 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 a stunningly erudite and insightful critical and historical interdisciplinary analysis --Hispania

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Charlotte Rogers is Assistant Professor of Spanish at George Mason University.

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