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Exotic Nations\nby Renata Wasserman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Renata Wasserman\nTitle: Exotic Nations\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501728136\nISBN-10: 150172813X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn 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 cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World's interpretation of i.