Patrícia I. Vieira is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and Associate Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has written several books, including Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction and Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought (coedited with Michael Marder).

• Introduction: A Land of Utopias1. The Theologico–Political Utopia of Father Antônio Vieira2. Amazons in the Amazon: Communitarian Matriarchy in the Jungle3. Zoophytographia: Interspecies Literature and the Writings of Clarice Lispector4. Idling in the Tropics: Utopias of LeisureEpilogue: The Country of the FutureNotes Works Cited Index

Patrícia I. Vieira is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and Associate Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has written several books, including Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction and Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought (coedited with Michael Marder).

• Introduction: A Land of Utopias1. The Theologico–Political Utopia of Father Antônio Vieira2. Amazons in the Amazon: Communitarian Matriarchy in the Jungle3. Zoophytographia: Interspecies Literature and the Writings of Clarice Lispector4. Idling in the Tropics: Utopias of LeisureEpilogue: The Country of the FutureNotes Works Cited Index