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

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 th...

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Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1994
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