Exotic Nations

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 asserte...

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Main Author: Wasserman, Renata
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Published: Cornell University Press 2023
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