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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Main Author: Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781501726064
Access:Open Access