03852oam 22007814a 450 991027235310332120210915044305.01-5017-2813-X0-8014-2877-71-5017-2605-610.7591/9781501726057(CKB)4340000000258209(OCoLC)1057688720(MdBmJHUP)muse67544(DE-B1597)496521(OCoLC)1028523135(DE-B1597)9781501726057(Au-PeEL)EBL5317515(CaPaEBR)ebr11523722(OCoLC)1028938350(MiAaPQ)EBC5317515(EXLCZ)99434000000025820919940506d1994 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierExotic NationsLiterature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 /Renata R. Mautner WassermanIthaca :Cornell University Press,1994.©1994.1 online resource (288 pages)0-8014-8205-4 1-5017-2606-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-280) and index.Front matter --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 --IndexIn 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.Indians in literatureExoticism in literatureAmerican literatureBrazilian influencesLiterature and societyBrazilHistoryBrazilian literatureHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistoryComparative literatureBrazilian and AmericanNational characteristics, Brazilian, in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureComparative literatureAmerican and BrazilianAmerican literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books. Indians in literature.Exoticism in literature.American literatureBrazilian influences.Literature and societyHistory.Brazilian literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory.Comparative literatureBrazilian and American.National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.Comparative literatureAmerican and Brazilian.American literatureHistory and criticism.809/.93327Wasserman Renata R. Mautner(Renata Ruth Mautner),1941-1024693MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272353103321Exotic Nations2435578UNINA