Nossa and Nuestra America : inter-American dialogues /
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
©2012.
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Colección: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;
v. 52. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments and Note on Translations; Introduction: This Our Disunion; Chapter One: Counterposing Nossa and Nuestra América; I. "Latin America": A Brief History of a Controversial Idea; II. The Problem: Brazil as Necessarily Problematic; III. One Side of the Coin: Spanish American Identity Projection; IV. The Other Side of the Coin: Brazilian Exceptionalism; V. Simón Bolívar: Brazil at the Margins of "Meridional America"; VI. José Bonifácio: Armed Spaniards, Young Republics, and the "Tempered Monarchy."
- Chapter Two: José Enrique Rodó: "Iberoamérica," the Magna Patria, and the Question of BrazilI. A Maestro in Spanish America, a Virtual Unknown in Brazil; II. The Americanista Paradigm, Language, and the Magna Patria; III. All of the Latin American Nations, including Brazil?; Chapter Three: Joaquim Nabuco: Monarchy's End and the "South Americanization" of Brazil; I. The Formation of a Monarchist and Abolutionist; II. The Ends of Constitutional Monarchy; III. Monarchy's End and the Threat of "South Americanization"; IV. Balmaceda: Chile's "Parliamentary Republic" as a Solution for Brazil.
- Chapter Four: Alfonso Reyes: Culture, Humanism, and Brazil's Place in the American UtopiaI. Reyes, a "Many-Tentacled Octopus"; II. Moderation, Continuity, and the Defense of Culture; III. Critical Humanism, the Public Intellectual, and the Example of Reyes; IV. Latin America's Utopian Vocation: Última Tule; V. Reyes's Vision of Brazil in America: Language and Utopia; Chapter Five: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda: Obscured Roots of Rodó in Raízes do Brasil; I. Buarque, a Lost Child of Ariel?; II. From a Theory of America to the Roots of Brazil.
- III. Rodó, Entangled in Buarque's Roots, Lost in Paz's LabyrinthAppendix: English Translations; Notes; Works Cited; Index.