Introduction The Fall of the Jesuits and the Crisis of the Colonialist Project Exiles of Empire: The Tragedy of Colonialism and the Romantic Indianist Utopia Slaves and Allies: The Conservative Mythology of Integration The Savage Strikes Back Epilogue Bibliography Index
Tracing the parallel history of official indigenist policy and Indianist writing, this study explores the encounter between literature and politics in Brazil's Indianist movement from 1750 to 1889 and reveals the central role of the Indian in constructing the self-image of state and society under Empire.
DAVID TREECE is Reader in Brazilian Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, King's College London, where he has lectured since 1987. He has worked with a number of Latin America-related NGOs, including the human rights organization Survival for tribal peoples. He is a translator of Brazilian fiction and poetry, and he teaches and researches on Brazilian popular music, poetry, literature and other aspects of Brazilian culture. He is also an editor of the international Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
?[A] valuable and enjoyable book that taps a rich vein in the
history of Brazilian identity.?-Latin American Studies
?[P]rovides a valuable supplement to anthropological acccounts of
the emergence of indigenismo and indianismo in Brazilian policy and
literature, respectively, by focusing on literary production during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil.?-Latin American
Research Review
?In this penetrating study of Indianism in colonial and
nineteenth-century Brazilian literature, David Treece offers a
sopisticated and textured analysis of the sociopolitical milieux
that engendered this genre...Treece's book suceeds in demonstrating
how Indianism, more than a romantic throwback, was characterized by
a broad array of ideological perspectives and political agendas
that often reflected its interlocutors' social backgrounds and
relationships to the imperial state...Treece's meticulously
researched book offers a historically grounded analysis that is a
much welcome addition to the slim but growing body of literature on
indigenous peoples in Brazil.?-Luso-Brazilian Review
?The research is thorough, the arguments sophisticated, and the
book rewarding for the specialist.?-Choice
"�A� valuable and enjoyable book that taps a rich vein in the
history of Brazilian identity."-Latin American Studies
"�P�rovides a valuable supplement to anthropological acccounts of
the emergence of indigenismo and indianismo in Brazilian policy and
literature, respectively, by focusing on literary production during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil."-Latin American
Research Review
"[A] valuable and enjoyable book that taps a rich vein in the
history of Brazilian identity."-Latin American Studies
"[P]rovides a valuable supplement to anthropological acccounts of
the emergence of indigenismo and indianismo in Brazilian policy and
literature, respectively, by focusing on literary production during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil."-Latin American
Research Review
"The research is thorough, the arguments sophisticated, and the
book rewarding for the specialist."-Choice
"In this penetrating study of Indianism in colonial and
nineteenth-century Brazilian literature, David Treece offers a
sopisticated and textured analysis of the sociopolitical milieux
that engendered this genre...Treece's book suceeds in demonstrating
how Indianism, more than a romantic throwback, was characterized by
a broad array of ideological perspectives and political agendas
that often reflected its interlocutors' social backgrounds and
relationships to the imperial state...Treece's meticulously
researched book offers a historically grounded analysis that is a
much welcome addition to the slim but growing body of literature on
indigenous peoples in Brazil."-Luso-Brazilian Review
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