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Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 / Renata Wasserman.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501726057
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Contents:
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
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.
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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.

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