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Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 52 |
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Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 52.
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| Summary |
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think. This book charts Brazil's evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial Latin American essayists: Uruguayan critic José Enrique Rodó, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazil's preeminent historians. While these writers are canonical figures in their respective national literary traditions, their thoughts on Brazilian-Spanish American relations are seldom investigated, and they are rarely approached from a comparative perspective. In Nossa and Nuestra América, Newcomb traces the development of two parallel essayistic traditions: Spanish American continentalist discourse and Brazil's solidly national exegetic tradition. With these essayistic traditions in mind, he argues that Brazil plays a necessary-and necessarily problematic-role in the intellectual construction of "Latin America." Further, in traversing the Luso-Hispanic frontier and bringing four of Latin America's preeminent thinkers into critical dialogue, Newcomb calls for a truly comparative approach to Luso-Brazilian and Spanish American literary and cultural studies. Nossa and Nuestra América will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian literature and ideas, and to anyone interested in rethinking comparative approaches to literary texts written in Portuguese and Spanish. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
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Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments and Note on Translations; Introduction: This Our Disunion; Chapter One: Counterposing Nossa and Nuestra América; I. "Latin America": A Brief History of a Controversial Idea; II. The Problem: Brazil as Necessarily Problematic; III. One Side of the Coin: Spanish American Identity Projection; IV. The Other Side of the Coin: Brazilian Exceptionalism; V. Simón Bolívar: Brazil at the Margins of "Meridional America"; VI. José Bonifácio: Armed Spaniards, Young Republics, and the "Tempered Monarchy." |
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Chapter Two: José Enrique Rodó: "Iberoamérica," the Magna Patria, and the Question of BrazilI. A Maestro in Spanish America, a Virtual Unknown in Brazil; II. The Americanista Paradigm, Language, and the Magna Patria; III. All of the Latin American Nations, including Brazil?; Chapter Three: Joaquim Nabuco: Monarchy's End and the "South Americanization" of Brazil; I. The Formation of a Monarchist and Abolutionist; II. The Ends of Constitutional Monarchy; III. Monarchy's End and the Threat of "South Americanization"; IV. Balmaceda: Chile's "Parliamentary Republic" as a Solution for Brazil. |
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Chapter Four: Alfonso Reyes: Culture, Humanism, and Brazil's Place in the American UtopiaI. Reyes, a "Many-Tentacled Octopus"; II. Moderation, Continuity, and the Defense of Culture; III. Critical Humanism, the Public Intellectual, and the Example of Reyes; IV. Latin America's Utopian Vocation: Última Tule; V. Reyes's Vision of Brazil in America: Language and Utopia; Chapter Five: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda: Obscured Roots of Rodó in Raízes do Brasil; I. Buarque, a Lost Child of Ariel?; II. From a Theory of America to the Roots of Brazil. |
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III. Rodó, Entangled in Buarque's Roots, Lost in Paz's LabyrinthAppendix: English Translations; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
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Brazilian literature -- History and criticism.
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Spanish American literature -- History and criticism.
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Comparative literature -- Brazilian and Spanish American.
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Comparative literature -- Spanish American and Brazilian.
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Nationalism and literature -- Brazil.
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Latin America -- Civilization.
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Amérique latine -- Civilisation.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Brazilian literature
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Civilization
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Nationalism and literature
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Spanish American literature
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Brazil https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRB9KGtqfkFTFbfB77QY
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Latin America
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613532398 (DLC) 2011023378 |
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9781612491516 (electronic bk.) |
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1612491510 (electronic bk.) |
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9781612491509 (electronic bk.) |
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1612491502 (electronic bk.) |
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9786613532398 |
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