LEADER 03983nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910898501403321 005 20251116164329.0 010 $a1-280-12851-8 010 $a9786613532398 010 $a1-61249-151-0 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046336 035 $a(EBL)3119193 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11362000 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10566337 035 $a(PQKB)10028601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3119193 035 $a(BIP)46365651 035 $a(BIP)34084066 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046336 100 $a20110610d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNossa and Nuestra America $einter-American dialogues /$fRobert Patrick Newcomb 210 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. $cPurdue University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 225 1 $aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vv. 52 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-55753-603-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIs Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra America: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think.This book charts Brazils evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial Latin American essayists: Uruguayan critic Jose Enrique Rodo, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and Sergio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazils preeminent historians. While these writers are canonical figures in their respective national literary traditions, their thoughts on BrazilianSpanish American relations are seldom investigated, and they are rarely approached from a comparative perspective. In Nossa and Nuestra America, Newcomb traces the development of two parallel essayistic traditions: Spanish American continentalist discourse and Brazils solidly national exegetic tradition. With these essayistic traditions in mind, he argues that Brazil plays a necessaryand necessarily problematicrole in the intellectual construction of Latin America. Further, in traversing the Luso-Hispanic frontier and bringing four of Latin Americas preeminent thinkers into critical dialogue, Newcomb calls for a truly comparative approach to Luso-Brazilian and Spanish American literary and cultural studies. Nossa and Nuestra America will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian literature and ideas, and to anyone interested in rethinking comparative approaches to literary texts written in Portuguese and Spanish. 410 0$aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vv. 52. 606 $aBrazilian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSpanish American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xBrazilian and Spanish American 606 $aComparative literature$xSpanish American and Brazilian 606 $aNationalism and literature$zBrazil 607 $aLatin America$xCivilization 615 0$aBrazilian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSpanish American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xBrazilian and Spanish American. 615 0$aComparative literature$xSpanish American and Brazilian. 615 0$aNationalism and literature 676 $a860.098 700 $aNewcomb$b Robert Patrick$01672036 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910898501403321 996 $aNossa and Nuestra America$94212859 997 $aUNINA