Indigenous peoples have survived centuries of explorers and exploiters who came up the Amazon seeking cinnamon, gold, rubber and other treasures. All we can count on is constant change. Literary and cultural amalgams are also common in Amazonian writing. A highly syncretic culture emerged, where the indigenous mingles with the foreign, so that in the midst of the jungle you have strange cultural dislocations. In one spectacular example, 19th-century European rubber barons transported a neoclassical opera house from Italy and reconstructed it in the jungle.
Similar juxtapositions occur in literature.
Partly because it has been dismissed by the traditional centers of culture. Amazonia's residents heard this so often that they eventually came to believe it themselves. But now residents of Amazonia are recognizing their own worth and how much they share.