Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 148 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Library of Latin America
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Library of Latin America.
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Summary |
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. |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Foreword; Translator's Note; Iracema; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; XVIII; XIX; XX; XXI; XXII; XXIII; XXIV; XXV; XXVI; XXVII; XXVIII; XXIX; XXX; XXXI; XXXII; XXXIII; Notes; Letter; Afterword; |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tupi Indians -- Fiction.
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Tupi Indians. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Fiction.
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Indians of South America. |
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Brazil. |
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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Race relations. |
Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Added Author |
Landers, Clifford E.
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Added Title |
Iracema. English
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Other Form: |
Print version: Alencar, José Martiniano de, 1829-1877. Iracema. English. Iracema. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195115473 (DLC) 99045927 (OCoLC)42437085 |
ISBN |
9780199761685 (electronic book) |
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019976168X (electronic book) |
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0195115473 |
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9780195115475 |
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0195115481 |
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9780195115482 |
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