José de Alencar
Subtitle: sou americano para o que der e vier
By: Weslei Roberto Cândido ; prefácio, Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo
Contributors: Cairo, Luiz Roberto, writer of preface
Publisher: EDUEM - Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Maringá-Paraná
Language: por
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9788576286455
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Brazilian literature; History and criticism; Nationalism in literature
Description: This thesis aims at presenting the novelist José de Alencar as the founder of the american novel in the Brazil. Concepts analyzed in Alencar's novels include between place, the big house and the slave quarters, tropicalism, transculturation, and indigenism.
Notes: Originally published in 2010 as a doctoral thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis.

Includes bibliographical references.