Iracema (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) - Softcover

Jose De Alencar

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9780850515008: Iracema (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira)

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ISBN 10: 0850515009 ISBN 13: 9780850515008

Publisher: Luso-Brazilian Books, 2005

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Jos� de Alencar's love story, which might be thought of as a Brazilian "Pocahontas," tells how Iracema meets and falls in love with the Portuguese colonist Martim. Their child, named Moacir, represents the union of the Portuguese with the native people, from whom the Brazilian people arise. But, tragically, Iracema dies, metaphorically demonstrating that the cost of this union is the life of the native peoples of Brazil. Iracema is considered the most important work of Brazil's romantic period, and one of the most important novels in the 500 years of Brazilian literature.

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About the Author:

Jos� Martiniano de Alencar (1829-1877) was a Brazilian writer, politician, journalist and lawyer, and the greatest representative of Brazil's indianist literary movement. In all, he wrote 18 novels and 8 plays, along with many newspaper columns and much literary criticism. He is credited with creating a national literature that demostrates a particularly Brazilian way of feeling and thinking. This led Machado de Assis to call him "the chief of our national literature."

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