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Nossa and Nuestra America: Inter-American Dialogues (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)
Robert Patrick Newcomb
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Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557536037
SKU
V9781557536037
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About Robert Patrick Newcomb
Robert Patrick Newcomb teaches Portuguese and Spanish at UC Davis. His articles, generally on comparative Luso-Hispanic topics, have been published in Estudos Avançados,Chasqui, Hispania,and Luso-Brazilian Review, among other journals. He is the translator of Alfredo Bosi’s Colony, Cult and Culture (UMass Dartmouth, 2008).
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