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I nomi dei personaggi indigeni nel romanzo storico indianista di José de Alencar
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In Brazil, during the XIX century, the historical romance is part of a
generational program that aims to the creation of the Brazilian literature, unique
and independent from the Portuguese literature, and profoundly linked to the
people, seen by the intellectuals as a new race born in the tropics. José de Alencar
unites effectively in his books the historical with the literary and esthetical movements of “indianism” and “nativism”, picturing the encounter of the Portuguese
and the Indian as the mythical birth of the Brazilian. The names the author gives
his Indian characters testify not only his will to capture the peculiar relationship
of the Indians with the edenic nature, through the creation of names that function
as true images, but also the anthropological and linguistic knowledge of a culture
seen as being at the same level as the European. The Indian names tell also the
story of the suffering and annihilation of the race and the birth of a new one.
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Romance histórico José de Alencar . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades
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Antunes, L. M. (2006). I nomi dei personaggi indigeni nel romanzo storico indianista di José de Alencar. il Nome nel testo: Rivista internazionale di onomastica letteraria, Pisa, Università di Pisa, VIII, pp. 493-503