Exotic nations : literature and cultural identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 /

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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 R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > American and Brazilian.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature.
Comparative literature > Brazilian and American.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Brazilian literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Brazil > History.
American literature > Brazilian influences.
Exoticism in literature.
Indians in literature.
Brazilians in literature.
Brésiliens dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
Littérature brésilienne > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Brésil > Histoire.
Littérature américaine > Influence brésilienne.
American literature.
Brazilian literature.
Literature and society.
Brazil.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 José de Alencar
  • 8. Nationality redefined, or lazy Macunaima
  • 9. Conclusion : exoticism as strategy.

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