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Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination.Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to alienated experiences; European travelers, while claiming to relate fact, were often passing on monstrous projections. She contends that their writing not only documented but also made possible the conquest of the peoples whom she travelers described, and she shows how travel literature contributed to the genesis of the modern novel and the modern life sciences.

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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 cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World's interpretation of its own history and natural environment.

American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Caractéristiques nationales brésiliennes dans la littérature --- Exoticism in literature --- Exotisme dans la littérature --- Exotisme in de literatuur --- Indianen in de literatuur --- Indians in literature --- Indiens dans la litterature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- National characteristics [Brazilian ] in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- Volkskarakter [Braziliaans ] in de literatuur --- American literature --- Comparative literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature. --- Literature and society --- Brazilian literature --- Exoticism in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- American and Brazilian. --- Brazilian and American. --- History. --- Brazilian influences. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- United States --- History --- Literature [Comparative ] --- American and Brazilian --- Brazil --- Brazilian and American --- Literature, Comparative - American and Brazilian. --- Literature, Comparative - Brazilian and American. --- Brazilian literature - History and criticism. --- Literature and society - Brazil - History. --- Literature: history & criticism