Trazos de agrimensura: soberanía, límites y rebelión en José Eustasio Rivera

Authors

  • Alejandro Quin University of Utah

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v42i1.2028

Abstract

This article explores the connections between land surveying and literature in the work of José Eustasio Rivera. Based on Rivera’s collaboration in the Colombia-Venezuela Border Commission (1922 ) and the projection of this experience in La vorágine, the article argues that the novel exposes the complicity between the Latin American liberal State and the multinational rubber companies. It also examines the sporadic references to indigenous and rubber tapper rebellions in La vorágine as literary inscriptions that point to the exhaustion of the relationship between boundaries and law in the context of the Amazon Rubber Boom.

Published

2018-04-16

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Articles