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Title: | Phytofables: Tales of the Amazon | Authors: | Vieira, Patrícia | Keywords: | Amazonia; Ecocriticism; Plant studies; Rubber-boom literature; Phytographia | Issue Date: | 2016 | Publisher: | APSA | Serial title, monograph or event: | Journal of Lusophone Studies | Volume: | 1 | Issue: | 2 | Place of publication or event: | Stanford | Abstract: | The Amazon has been the repository of myriad stories created as a means to make sense of the proliferation of life in the forest. In this article, I trace some of the narratives—which I call phytofables—that explorers, scientists, activists and governments have superimposed upon the region, from the green hell/earthly Paradise dichotomy to more recent discourses of economic progress and protectionism. In the final section of the article, I turn to literary texts that have attempted to listen to and interpret the voice of the forest, in particular Alberto Rangel’s Inferno Verde and José Maria Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/34098 | ISSN: | 2469-4800 | DOI: | 10.21471/jls.v1i2.112 | Rights: | openAccess |
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