Exploitation
Exploitation
A Journey to the Export Real
This chapter discusses the popularization of literary fictions that opposed the export-led model of growth in 1920. Literary writers reject European city life, and promote autochthony or regionalism to search of a more “simple” or“authentic” rural life. The chapter examines Colombian novelist José Eustasio Rivera’s novel, La vorágine (The Vortex [1924]), to describe the destructive effect of frontier capitalism and to demonstrate the poverty of Latin American export economies. The novel provided a striking image of the ecological consequences of removing natural resources.
Keywords: autochthony, regionalism, rural life, capitalism, La vorágine, Latin American
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