Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J. A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia

Renata Wasserman

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2009n57p59

Authors

Renata Wasserman Wayne State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2009n57p59

Abstract

Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J. A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia

Author Biography

Renata Wasserman, Wayne State University

Renata R. M. WRenata R. M. W Renata R. M. WRenata R. M. W Renata R. M. W assermanasserman assermanasserman asserman is a Professor of Comparative Literature in the English Department at Wayne State University. She is the author of Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in Brazil and the United States (1994), of Central at the Margin: Five Brazilian Women Writers (2007), and numerous articles, including "Clarice Lispector e o misticismo da matéria" in Clarice Lispector: Novos aportes crítico (2008); "Financial Fictions: Emile Zola's L'argent, Frank Norris' The Pit, and Alfredo de Taunay's O encilhamento, Comparative Literature Studies; "Mario Vargas Llosa, Euclides da Cunha, and the Strategies of Intertextuality," PMLA, among others. She is now working on a book about finance in novels between 1870 and 1930.