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Johns Hopkins University | AS.361.410

Colombia and Venezuela: Postcolonial History and The European Novel

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The intertwined histories of Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and the Caribbean studied in two novels: Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904) and Juan Javier Vázquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana (2007). Other novelists include Rómulo Gallegos (Doña Bárbara, 1929); Alejo Carpentier (The Lost Steps, 1953), and Gabriel García Márquez (The General in his Labyrinth, 1989).

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