Renata Wasserman: 2 books
Exotic Nations
Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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...
Lima Barreto
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...