Exiles, allies, rebels Brazil's indianist movement, indigenist politics, and the imperial nation-state

Title:

Author:

Treece, Dave.

ISBN:

9780313030567

Personal Author:

Treece, Dave.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 271 p.)

Series:

Contributions in Latin American studies, no. 16

Contributions in Latin American studies.

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.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Politics and government.

Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Government relations.

Indians of South America -- Cultural assimilation -- Brazil.

Social movements -- Brazil -- History.

Indianists -- Brazil.

Geographic Term:

Brazil -- Politics and government.