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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner 1941- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2018
1994.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Indians in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
American literature > Brazilian influences.
Literature and society > Brazil > History.
Brazilian literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Comparative literature > Brazilian and American.
National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Comparative literature > American and Brazilian.
American literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422302106719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • 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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