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... celestial and earthly spaces. Reticulations of eclecticism, evangelism, and epistemology of space come to the fore in the Jesuit geometer and astronomer Valentin Stansel (1621–1705). Among the works he wrote in Brazil, Legatus Uranicus (1683) and Uranophilus (1685) most stridently portrayed Stansel...

... ‘‘trying to earn his living on Mr. Closson’s plan- Tseng 2000.12.5 11:42 DST:103 796 American Literature tation in Brazil 49 By the 1870s, the decade in which the novel is set, Brazil had already become ‘‘the major...

... as the narrator ‘‘place[s] before’’ the reader the last hundred pages of Locksley’s diary to solve the riddle of his broken high-society engagement and his plunge into obscurity L-P 65). The story’s narrative frame also echoes the diaries of both William, who kept a personal diary in Brazil, and the Agassizes...

... locates this concern in three of Bishop’s Brazil poems: ‘‘Arrival at Santos ‘‘Brazil, January 1, 1502 and ‘‘Questions of Travel Roman’s arguments about Bishop’s silences on the Korean War and U.S. nuclear...

... she is around or conscious of Clare (176). Even when she is ready to end the friendship, the sixth sense “[holds] her back,” and she cannot shake it, or Clare, off (228). The sixth sense also tells her that her husband, Brian, is still fantasizing about “going off to Brazil” to escape “his profession...

... Merchant sneered— Brazil?HetwirledaButton— Without a glance my way— ‘‘But—Madam—is there nothing else— That We can show—Today (621) Tseng 2000.8.30 14:28 OCV:0...

... street vernaculars and standup comedy to avant- garde fragmentations, that embody voices absent from a consensus culture. Dan Chiasson takes his title, One Kind of Everything, from Eliza- beth Bishop’s poem “Crusoe in England,” written in Brazil in the per- sona of Daniel Defoe’s protagonist...

... translation of Alexander von Humboldt’s fêted Travels in South America (1808), a firsthand, “heart-rending” account of the 1812 earthquake in Caracas, and a review of a history of Portuguese and Spanish colonization in the Americas—all conscripted into Irving’s print commodity (“ History of Brazil...

... (1984)—Tosta intervenes in the field of twentieth-century inter-American studies, with particular attention to the inclusion of Brazil. The study reveals how factors such as immigration, slavery, and colonization have inextricably linked nations throughout the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, thus...

... that the geographical area between the American South and northern Brazil constitutes one coherent cultural space of creolized existence in which Faulkner dominates as a creole author (44). With the translation of Faulkner’s work into Spanish in the early 1930s, Latin American writers started to recognize...

... O’Hara: Poet among Painters, borrowing an appellation originally applied to the French poet (New York: G. Braziller, 1977). 5 Bruce Boone offered the first serious appraisal of the critical potential of O’Hara’s camp; see “Gay Language as Political Praxis,” Social Text 1...

... ethnographic methods, curatorial practices, and public displays that have depicted colonized people. While the book focuses on a U.S. context, many of the pieces have international implications, highlighting parallels between native people in North America and places such as Mexico, Brazil...

... .” In The Langston Hughes Reader , edited by Hughes Langston , 492 – 94 . New York : Braziller . ———. (1940) 2001b . “ Seven Moments of Love: An Un-Sonnet Sequence in Blues .” In The Poems: 1941–1950. Vol. 2 of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes , edited by Rampersad Arnold , 24 – 28...

... of the modern capitalist world-system created a new peripheral region that stretches from northeast Brazil to Maryland.4 By bringing Cuba’s relation to the Confederacy into focus, I hope to place the U.S. South in a hemispheric context that complicates rather than flattens its northern as well...

..., Bishop was in Brazil, ‘‘happier’’ than she had felt in a decade, and more disengaged than ever from the tides of American politics.19 Moreover, neither Williams nor his friends thought to request her 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 160...

... regions featured in the poets’ work, including San Francisco, New England, Key West, and Brazil. Brief Mention  217 Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill. By Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008...

... considers Poe’s influence on international literatures and writers. The reader learns about Poe’s role in China, Estonia, Brazil, and India, and his impact on Kafka and Pessoa, Carlos Fuentes and August...

... 1930 Cyclone San Zenón (chapter 1) and great droughts in Brazil’s sertão, that country’s arid northeastern area (chapter 2), to Central American volcanic eruptions (chap- ter 3) and Mexico City’s 1985 earthquake (chapter 4). Anderson’s discursive 206  American Literature Latin American...

... representations and negotiations of environmental disasters. His genealogy of “iconic” crises ranges from the Dominican Republic’s 1930 Cyclone San Zenón (chapter 1) and great droughts in Brazil’s sertão, that country’s arid northeastern area (chapter 2), to Central American volcanic eruptions (chap...

... representations and negotiations of environmental disasters. His genealogy of “iconic” crises ranges from the Dominican Republic’s 1930 Cyclone San Zenón (chapter 1) and great droughts in Brazil’s sertão, that country’s arid northeastern area (chapter 2), to Central American volcanic eruptions (chap...