Introduction: A Land of Utopias
1. The Theologico-Political Utopia of Father Antônio Vieira
2. Amazons in the Amazon: Communitarian Matriarchy in the Jungle
3. Zoophytographia: Interspecies Literature and the Writings of Clarice Lispector
4. Idling in the Tropics: Utopias of Leisure
Epilogue: The Country of the Future
Notes
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).