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Exiles, allies, rebels : Brazil's indianist movement, indigenist politics, and the imperial nation-state / by David Treece.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Treece, Dave.
- Series:
- Contributions in Latin American studies ; no. 16.
- Contributions in Latin American studies, 1054-6790 ; no. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indianists--Brazil.
- Indianists.
- Indians of South America--Cultural assimilation--Brazil.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Government relations.
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Politics and government.
- Social movements--Brazil--History.
- Social movements.
- Brazil--Politics and government.
- Brazil.
- Brazil--Race relations.
- Brazil--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 soc
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Fall of the Jesuits and the Crisis of the Colonialist Project; 2 Exiles of Empire: The Tragedy of Colonialism and the Romantic Indianist Utopia; 3 Slaves and Allies: The Conservative Mythology of Integration; 4 The Savage Strikes Back; Epilogue: The Indianist Legacy; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400648939
- 9786612406829
- 9781282406827
- 1282406825
- 9780313030567
- 0313030561
- OCLC:
- 55731867
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