Theories and Technologies of the Amazonian Fluvial Landscape

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Published: Dec 19, 2022
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Rivers, Amazonia, labor, infrastructure, landscape

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Javier Uriarte
Stony Brook University

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This article studies the various ways of imagining and representing the Amazonian rivers, particularly in the Brazilian context. Through the analysis of essays by Leandro Tocantins, Joao de Jesus Paes Loureiro and Euclides da Cunha, these pages discuss forms of understanding the movement of the river and its connotations, as well as the importance of rhythm and oscillation in the transformation and representation of times and spaces. Working to a certain extent from the perspective of the state’s perception –and particularly considering infrastructural projects that have characterized the way in which the state has dealt with Amazonia– the ideas of labor and incessant change are elaborated. Finally, the article analyzes a short narrative of the Brazilian author and engineer Alberto Rangel, where these elements appear developed from a fictional perspective.

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Uriarte, J. (2022). Theories and Technologies of the Amazonian Fluvial Landscape. Heterotopías, 5(10), 183–193. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/39772
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Vol. 5 No. 10 (2022): River matter. Aesthetic-political configurations of American watersheds.
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Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University

Javier Uriarte is a professor of Latin American literature and culture at Stony Brook University. He received his BA from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and his PhD from New York University. He is interested in the study of travel literature, the environmental humanities, the territorial imagination in Latin America, the relationship between war and representation, infrastructure studies, and the Amazon. He is the author of The Desertmakers: Travel, War and the State in Latin America (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of three books: Entre el humo y la nievla: Guerra y cultura en América Latina (IILI, 2016), Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon (Liverpool University Press, 2019), and Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is currently working on a project tentatively titled "Fluvial Poetics in the Amazon: Infrastructure, Displacement, Modernization," for which he received a Marcel Bataillon senior fellowship from the Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de Madrid (2021-22).

Email: javier.uriarte@stonybrook.edu

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