Surveying the American Tropics A Literary Geography from New York to Rio

Maria Cristina Fumagalli is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. She is the author of 'Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze' (University of Virginia Press, 2009). Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. His most recent publication is Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente (Liverpool University Press, 2011). Owen Robinson is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Essex. Lesley Wylie is Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester and the author of 'Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the novela de la selva' (Liverpool University Press, 2009).