Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction: Or, Fictions and Frontiers-The Making of the Modern World-Ecology
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2 The Commodity Frontier and Its Secret
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3 Fictions of Appropriation and the Nature of Frontier Romance
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4 Romance, Realism, Modernism: Frontier Forms in the Work of Rhys Davies and José Lins Do Rego
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5 The "Mangled" Body: Proletarian Writing and the Dialectic of Labour
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6 "Stop the Oil!": Narrative Energetics and the Political Ecology of Strikes
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7 "We State the Facts": Romance and Revolt in the Work of Jorge Amado and Gwyn Thomas
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Index