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

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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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Auteur principal: Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society.
Indians in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
Brazilian literature.
American literature > Brazilian influences.
American literature.
Brazilians in literature.
Litterature americaine > Influence bresilienne.
Litterature et societe > Bresil > Histoire.
Litterature bresilienne > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
Bresiliens dans la litterature.
Literature and society > Brazil > History.
Brazilian literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Comparative literature > Brazilian and American.
Comparative literature > American and Brazilian.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
Brazil.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table des matières:
  • 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 Macunaima
  • 9. Conclusion : exoticism as strategy.

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