Do extrínseco ao intrínseco: a renovação para além da forma em Iracema

Abstract

This work intends to look into the close connection between cultural, social and literary contexts and formal and thematic elements in the indianist work Iracema. In this regard, texts with critical tenor written by Alencar have been analyzed with other works also written by the same author with the purpose to scrutinize how and with how much intensity the external aspects, i.e., external to the artistic piece, have shaped intrinsic aspects into this indianist legend. Thus, it is here understood as the central axis related to these observations the reflection about the singular treatment given by the author to this indigenous race and to the process of fusion of this with the natural surrounding space, as also the formal aspects referred to use of the indigenous language and its roots. This is explicit in the profusion of explanatory notes found in this work.