Textualidad y sexualidad en la construccion de la selva: genealogias discursivas en La voragine de Jose Eustasio Rivera

In this essay, I argue that Rivera's novel shows the Amazonian rainforest as a textual corpus, both a repository of writing and a sexualized body overwritten by history. Through the always contradictory and self-parodying narrative of Arturo Cova, La voràgine traces a genealogy of exploitation and its legitimating discourses from the moment of conquest to the Rubber Boom. Rather than a true representation of the Latin American natural space, La voràgine seeks to question the very concept of truth, revealing the Amazon as a space always already written by the linguistic violence of modernity, colonialism, and patriarchy