Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 /

In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wasserman, Renata (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
American literature > Brazilian influences.
American literature > History and criticism.
Brazilian literature > History and criticism.
Brazilians in literature.
Comparative literature > American and Brazilian.
Comparative literature > Brazilian and American.
Exoticism in literature.
Indians in literature.
Literature and society > Brazil > History.
Literature and society > United States > History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature.
American Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Designing Nations
  • 2. First Accounts: The Building Blocks
  • 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Discourse of the Exotic
  • 4. Love in Exotic Places : Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie
  • 5. Chateaubriand's Atala and the Ready-Made Exotic
  • 6. James Fenimore Cooper and the Image of America
  • 7. Nationality and the "Indian" Novels of Jose de Alencar
  • 8. Nationality Redefined, or Lazy Macunaíma
  • 9. Conclusion: Exoticism as Strategy
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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