Selgas, Gianfranco;
(2023)
El Secreto De La Tierra: Entangled Poetics And The Venezuelan Amazon In Una Ojeada Al Mapa De Venzuela (1939) By Enrique Bernardo Núñez.
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
10.1080/13569325.2023.2214502.
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Abstract
In the beginning of the twentieth century, after its rapid insertion into the vortex of oil and mineral extraction, Venezuela was forced to re-think its relationship with nature. This process of rethink, characterised by an eagerness for modernisation, resulted in a series of discourses focused on Venezuela’s Amazonia as a repository of possibilities. This paper analyses how these possibilities were channelled through the metaphor of el secreto de la tierra, tracing an early reading of the ideological configuration of Venezuela and its Amazonia as a land of inexhaustible material and poetic richness. This metaphor was voiced by a set of socio-ecological discourses written about the Venezuelan Amazon, including the essay on Venezuelan geography and culture by Enrique Bernardo Núñez Una ojeada al mapa de Venezuela (1939). The paper focuses on the representation of this region as a set of discursive constructions entangled with the naturalisation of the modernising ideal that has fuelled the imaginaries of material growth and rentier capitalism in Venezuela. The concluding remarks will point to how such a reading can help us to understand a discursive and poetic radicalisation embedded in conflicting approaches to the nature-culture confluence in the Venezuelan Amazon.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | El Secreto De La Tierra: Entangled Poetics And The Venezuelan Amazon In Una Ojeada Al Mapa De Venzuela (1939) By Enrique Bernardo Núñez |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13569325.2023.2214502 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2214502 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Amazonia; Enrique Bernardo Núñez; environmental humanities; Latin American literature; Venezuela |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172750 |
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