Exiles, Allies, Rebels Brazil's Indianist Movement, Indigenist Politics, and the Imperial Nation-State
- List Price: $145.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Description:
This is the first global study of the single most important intellectual and artistic movement in Brazilian cultural history before Modernism. The Indianist movement, under the direct patronage of the Emperor Pedro II, was a major pillar of the Empire's project of state-building, involving historians, poets, playwrights and novelists in the production of a large body of work extending over most of the nineteenth century. Tracing the parallel history of official indigenist policy and Indianist writing, Treece reveals the central role of the Indian in constructing the self-image of state and society under Empire. He aims to historicize the movement, examining it both as a literary and cultural phenomenon with its own invented traditions and myths.
Expand description
Please Wait