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

Author/Contributor(s):	Wasserman, Renata
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	08/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...