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c on t e n ts Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 chapter 1 Edenic and Cannibal Encounters 9 chapter 2 Paradise (Re)Gained: Dutch Representations of Brazil and Nativist Imagery 63 chapter 3 Regal Brazil 106 chapter 4 The Foundations of a National Literary Imaginary 132 chapter 5 Modernist Brazil 184 chapter 6 Good Neighbor Brazil 209 chapter 7 From Revolutionary to Dystopian Brazil on Screen 234 Epilogue: Land of the Future 274 Notes 299 Bibliography 335 Index 355 Color section follows page 148 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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