Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives

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Contents Acknowledgments vii A Note on Translations ix Introduction 1 1 Medical Discourse and Modernist Prose in Heart of Darkness 29 2 Pathological Philosophies of Decay in The Way of the Kings 63 3 Writing in The Vortex: Madness, Medicine, and the Lost Notebooks of Arturo Cova 91 4 “No era para narrado”: Narrating Madness in Canaima 119 5 Surrealism, Science, and Sanity in The Lost Steps 143 Conclusion 171 Notes 185 Bibliography 205 Index 221 ...