Darlene J. Sadlier is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the author of several books on Portuguese and Brazilian literature and culture, including Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

For transforming 500 years of a country's complex history into an articulate narrative, Brazil Imagined is an effort to be praised and a must-read for introductory courses on Brazil and Latin America. (Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Edenic and Cannibal EncountersChapter Two: Paradise (Re)Gained: Dutch Representations of Brazil and Nativist ImaginaryChapter Three: Regal BrazilChapter Four: The Foundations of a National Literary ImaginaryChapter Five: Modernist BrazilChapter Six: Good Neighbor BrazilChapter Seven: From Revolutionary to Dystopian Brazil on ScreenEpilogue: Land of the FutureNotesBibliographyIndex

Darlene J. Sadlier is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the author of several books on Portuguese and Brazilian literature and culture, including Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

For transforming 500 years of a country's complex history into an articulate narrative, Brazil Imagined is an effort to be praised and a must-read for introductory courses on Brazil and Latin America. (Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Edenic and Cannibal EncountersChapter Two: Paradise (Re)Gained: Dutch Representations of Brazil and Nativist ImaginaryChapter Three: Regal BrazilChapter Four: The Foundations of a National Literary ImaginaryChapter Five: Modernist BrazilChapter Six: Good Neighbor BrazilChapter Seven: From Revolutionary to Dystopian Brazil on ScreenEpilogue: Land of the FutureNotesBibliographyIndex

Darlene J. Sadlier is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the author of several books on Portuguese and Brazilian literature and culture, including Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

For transforming 500 years of a country's complex history into an articulate narrative, Brazil Imagined is an effort to be praised and a must-read for introductory courses on Brazil and Latin America. (Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Edenic and Cannibal EncountersChapter Two: Paradise (Re)Gained: Dutch Representations of Brazil and Nativist ImaginaryChapter Three: Regal BrazilChapter Four: The Foundations of a National Literary ImaginaryChapter Five: Modernist BrazilChapter Six: Good Neighbor BrazilChapter Seven: From Revolutionary to Dystopian Brazil on ScreenEpilogue: Land of the FutureNotesBibliographyIndex