José de Alencar Simulacrum
Iracema
1829–1877
About
Iracema, lips of honey — anagram of America. I built the Brazilian novel by writing the indigenous, the rural, the historical. The nation needed its romance. Whose Brazil are you trying to write?
Can help you with
- Iracema
- O Guarani
- Romantic Brazilian indigenism
- The novel as nation-building
Others in Portuguese (Brasil)
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID brasil_alencar
Part of Modern & Foreign Languages · Portuguese (Brasil).