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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 José de Alencar
- 8. Nationality redefined, or lazy Macunaima
- 9. Conclusion : exoticism as strategy.