Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930.
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TextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781501726057
- American literature-History and criticism
- Comparative literature-American and Brazilian
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature
- Comparative literature-Brazilian and American
- Literature and society-United States-History
- Brazilian literature-History and criticism
- Literature and society-Brazil-History
- American literature-Brazilian influences
- Exoticism in literature
- Indians in literature
- 809/.93327
- PS159.B6 .W377 1994
Exotic Nations -- 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 -- 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 Macunaíma -- 9 Conclusion: Exoticism as Strategy -- Bibliography -- Index.
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