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Exotic Nations Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 / Renata R. Mautner Wasserman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians in literature.
- Exoticism in literature.
- American literature--Brazilian influences.
- American literature.
- Literature and society--Brazil--History.
- Literature and society.
- Brazilian literature--History and criticism.
- Brazilian literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History.
- Comparative literature--Brazilian and American.
- Comparative literature.
- National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Comparative literature--American and Brazilian.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Renata R. Mautner Wasserman has retired as Professor of English at Wayne State University.
- Summary:
- 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 that asserted cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World's interpretation of its own history and natural environment.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-280) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501728136
- 150172813X
- 9780801428777
- 0801428777
- 9781501726057
- 1501726056
- OCLC:
- 1057688720
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