| Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues Contributor(s): Newcomb, Robert Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557536031 ISBN-13: 9781557536037 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 860.098 |
| LCCN: 2011023378 |
| Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is Brazil part of Latin America or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra Am (c)rica: 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 Jos (c) Enrique Rod 3, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and S (c)rgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazil's preeminent historians. The author argues that Brazil plays a necessary"and necessarily problematic"role in the intellectual construction of Latin America. Nossa and Nuestra Am (c)rica 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. |