Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 / / Renata R. Mautner Wasserman.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1994. ©1994. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 1994 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
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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