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Iracema : a novel / by Jose de Alencar ; translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers ; with a foreword by Naomi Lindstrom ; and an afterword by Alcides Villaca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alencar, José Martiniano de, 1829-1877.
- Series:
- Library of Latin America.
- Library of Latin America
- Standardized Title:
- Iracema. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Colonization--Fiction.
- Colonization.
- Brazil--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-59430-6
- 9786613624130
- 0-19-976168-X
- OCLC:
- 776600395
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