Transnationally Forged Nationality: Le Brésil littéraire and the Writing of Literary History in the Nineteenth Century
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Laura Rivas Gagliardi
Abstract
The circulation of capital, people, and ideas that followed the radical transformations of the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution (1789) formed a propitious context for the emergence of Ferdinand Wolf’s Le Brésil littéraire (1863). The work is a result of the transnational relations between the Brazilian and the Habsburg Empires. Its author locates Brazilian literature within the pantheon of Weltliteratur, attributing literary, cultural, and political autonomy to Brazil despite the fact that it remained a colonised country until recently. An analysis of the context of the book’s publication as well as of some excerpts of the work reveals the ideological purpose behind the writing of literary history and how the writing of literary history can serve as an tool in projects of nation-building and the formation of national identity.
Abstract
The circulation of capital, people, and ideas that followed the radical transformations of the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution (1789) formed a propitious context for the emergence of Ferdinand Wolf’s Le Brésil littéraire (1863). The work is a result of the transnational relations between the Brazilian and the Habsburg Empires. Its author locates Brazilian literature within the pantheon of Weltliteratur, attributing literary, cultural, and political autonomy to Brazil despite the fact that it remained a colonised country until recently. An analysis of the context of the book’s publication as well as of some excerpts of the work reveals the ideological purpose behind the writing of literary history and how the writing of literary history can serve as an tool in projects of nation-building and the formation of national identity.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction: The Concept of the Transnational in Literary Studies 1
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1 The Transnational amongst Related Concepts in Theory and Marketing
- Mixed Attachments in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana (1971) 21
- Transnational Challenges for World Literatures: Publishing Caribbean Writers 44
- “Transnational Decolonial Aesthetics”: The “Hottentot Venus” Re-Configured 56
- Precariously Transnational: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief 76
- The Discursive Construction of Transnational Fiction on Penguin Random House Group Websites 89
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2 Transnational Literary Histories
- Utopia, Limited: Transnational Utopianism and Intercultural Imaginaries of the Ideal 107
- Travel Literature and/as Transnational Theatre History – Beyond National Theatre Cultures 124
- Transnationally Forged Nationality: Le Brésil littéraire and the Writing of Literary History in the Nineteenth Century 142
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3 Poetics and Politics of Transnational Genres
- Historical Horizons: The Historical Novel and Transnational Memory 169
- Re-centring European Geopolitics: Transnational Identities in the Twenty-First- Century Hungarian-Language Novel from Slovakia 189
- Transnational Migrant Fiction as World Literature: Identity, Translatability, and the Global Book Market 206
- Translinguistic Theatre for a Globalised Stage? 226
- Works Cited 239
- Notes on Contributors 259
- Index 263
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction: The Concept of the Transnational in Literary Studies 1
-
1 The Transnational amongst Related Concepts in Theory and Marketing
- Mixed Attachments in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana (1971) 21
- Transnational Challenges for World Literatures: Publishing Caribbean Writers 44
- “Transnational Decolonial Aesthetics”: The “Hottentot Venus” Re-Configured 56
- Precariously Transnational: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief 76
- The Discursive Construction of Transnational Fiction on Penguin Random House Group Websites 89
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2 Transnational Literary Histories
- Utopia, Limited: Transnational Utopianism and Intercultural Imaginaries of the Ideal 107
- Travel Literature and/as Transnational Theatre History – Beyond National Theatre Cultures 124
- Transnationally Forged Nationality: Le Brésil littéraire and the Writing of Literary History in the Nineteenth Century 142
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3 Poetics and Politics of Transnational Genres
- Historical Horizons: The Historical Novel and Transnational Memory 169
- Re-centring European Geopolitics: Transnational Identities in the Twenty-First- Century Hungarian-Language Novel from Slovakia 189
- Transnational Migrant Fiction as World Literature: Identity, Translatability, and the Global Book Market 206
- Translinguistic Theatre for a Globalised Stage? 226
- Works Cited 239
- Notes on Contributors 259
- Index 263
