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Re-Reading Alencar's Iracema Through Saer's Lens, Felicia Trievel
Re-Reading Alencar's Iracema Through Saer's Lens, Felicia Trievel
Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture
Abstract:
The topic of European colonization is one that is discussed frequently throughout Latin American literature in a variety of different manners. Two books that discuss the colonization of different countries in extremely different ways are Iracema (1865) by José de Alencar and El entenado (1983) by Juan José Saer. The former examines the colonization of Brazil by Portuguese colonists, taking away much of the culture of the indigenous people previously inhabiting Brazil. El entenado examines the colonization of Argentina by the Spaniards. When one reads these two novels it is impossible not to compare the two due to the …