among other things, Kevin Foster's Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire highlights that when British writers write about Latin America they all so often write about lost cities. from Haggard's Heart of the World to Kingsley's Westward Ho!, from Waugh's A Handful of Dust to Shukman's The Lost City, the imagination appears to have moved on little from the sixteenth century. some questions:
does the Latin American lost city tell us anything about Latin America?
why are lost cities both lost and found, or sometimes lost only when found?
do lost cities have anything to do with cities at all?
can we find the lost city in the postmodern metropolis?
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