Emilio Salgari: The Tiger Is Still Alive!

Emilio Salgari, an Italian adventure novelist, created the most famous Southeast Asian hero during imperialism and colonialism, inaugurated the Indian-Italian imaginary link with The Mysteries of the Black Jungle, envisioned interracial love stories, defined the Caribbean as a symbolic trope of plunder and rebellion, and created the famous Portuguese hero Yanez de Gomera, representing white anti-colonialism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 442 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Emilio Salgari, an Italian adventure novelist, is widely regarded as the creator of the most famous Southeast Asian hero during the heyday of imperialism and colonialism. His works, such as The Mysteries of the Black Jungle, have created a long-lasting link between the Italian imaginary and the Indian one. Salgari's novels have envisioned some of the most celebrated interracial love stories of world literature, including those between Sandokan, the leader of the Tigers of Mompracem, and Marianna, the Pearl of Labuan, between Tremal-Naik, the Bengali snake catcher, and Ada, the Virgin of Kalis temple during the British Raj. He has also defined the Caribbean as a symbolic trope of plunder and rebellion through the melancholic viewpoint of the Black Corsair and the forsaken love for his enemy's daughter. Salgari's creation of Yanez de Gomera, a Portuguese hero, and the imperfect voice of white anti-colonialism has challenged canonical colonialist representations by contemporary Victorian authors like Conrad, Kipling, and Forster. Salgari's breath-taking plots, together with his indigenous heroes and heroines in Vietnam, Thailand, Venezuela, Arctic Canada, the American Far West, and the Chinese diaspora, deeply challenge canonical colonialist representations by contemporary Victorian authors like Conrad, Kipling, and Forster.

Weight: 810g
Dimension: 235 x 160 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781683934080