Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930

Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
ISBN-10
1501726056
ISBN-13
9781501726057
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
301
Language
English
Published
2018-03-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Renata Wasserman

Description

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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