Iracema :: a novel /

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 li...

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1. Verfasser: Alencar, José Martiniano de, 1829-1877
Weitere Verfasser: Landers, Clifford E.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Portuguese
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Schriftenreihe:Library of Latin America.
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Zusammenfassung: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--contemp.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvi, 148 pages)
ISBN:9780199761685
019976168X

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