Lévi-Strauss's Journey to the Tropics.

Discusses a concept of journey as transgression of both time and space, which irrevocably contaminates both observed and observer, by analyzing "Tristes Tropiques," by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Reason for the replication of Europe in the tropics; Philosophical fable of Achilles and the tortoise; Backgro...

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Published in:Portuguese Studies Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 7 - 19
Main Author: Santiago, Silviano
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2006
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