Exotic Nations :
Wasserman, Renata,
Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 / Renata Wasserman. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1994 - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- 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
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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 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
In English.
9781501726057
10.7591/9781501726057 doi
Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 / Renata Wasserman. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1994 - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- 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
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
In English.
9781501726057
10.7591/9781501726057 doi