Author: Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner
Title: Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x,288 pp. Minor rubbing. Light page-edge soil. A label to rear cover. VG ¶ Contents: Introduction: Designing Nations; First Accounts: The Building Blocks; Jean-Jacques Rousseau & the Discourse of the Exotic; Love in Exotic Places: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's 'Paul et Virginie'; Chateaubriand's 'Atala' & the Ready-made Exotic; James Fenimore Cooper & the Image of America; Nationality & the "Indian" Novels of José de Alencar;Nationality Redefined, or Lazy Macunaima; Conclusion: Exoticism as Strategy.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Brazilian, Comparative, Literature History, Cultural Identity, Nationalism, Exoticism, Brazil, United States