This article analyzes the writing of the Portuguese writer Eca de Queiros representing the US of America and the Americans in the nineteenth century. He witnessed the intense material progress of the young American na...This article analyzes the writing of the Portuguese writer Eca de Queiros representing the US of America and the Americans in the nineteenth century. He witnessed the intense material progress of the young American nation, but also the misery and the intense class and racial struggle that shook it. The observation derives from his comprehension of the US of America as a nation made through the conquest of a vital territory, of successive frontiers. The second concerns the extraordinary perception of America as a multicultural nation, made up from an intense migratory movement from all over the world.展开更多
文摘This article analyzes the writing of the Portuguese writer Eca de Queiros representing the US of America and the Americans in the nineteenth century. He witnessed the intense material progress of the young American nation, but also the misery and the intense class and racial struggle that shook it. The observation derives from his comprehension of the US of America as a nation made through the conquest of a vital territory, of successive frontiers. The second concerns the extraordinary perception of America as a multicultural nation, made up from an intense migratory movement from all over the world.
