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Iracema: A Legend of Brazil

By Jose de Alencar , Naomi Lindstrom , Clifford E. Landers , Alcides Villaça

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0-19-511547-3, 9780195115475, 9780199761685, 019976168X, 0-19-511548-1, 978-0-19-511548-2
Language
englishportuguese
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6027697 bytes)
Series
Library of Latin America
Pages
148\177
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid-nineteenth cenury Brazil dealt with race mixture and multicultural experience. Precisely because of its nineteenth-century romanticism, Iracema strongly contributed to a Brazilian sense of nationhood--contemporary Brazilian writers and literary critics still cite it as a foundation for their own work

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