Immaterial transcendences
Subtitle: colonial subjectivity as process in Brazil's Letter of discovery (1500)
By: Constance G. Janiga-Perkins.
Series: Wor(l)ds of change ;; vol. 51
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Caminha, Pero Vaz de, 15th cent.; Caminha, Pero Vaz de, 15th cent. -- Psychology.; Subjectivity.; Difference (Psychology); Indians of South America -- First contact with Europeans -- Brazil.; Portuguese language -- Discourse analysis.; America -- Early accounts to 1600 -- History and criticism.; Brazil -- Discovery and exploration -- Portuguese.; Brazil -- Colonization -- Psychological aspects.
Genres: Early accounts to 1600
Description: "Brazil's Letter of discovery, Carta a El Rei D. Manuel (1500) by Pero Vaz de Caminha, continues to merit critical analysis. This book considers the Carta as a journey beyond the boundaries of conventional consciousness into a jungle or outback. Immaterial Transcendences details how the writing in the Carta carries on the process of colonial subjectivity by examining the function of stutters in the discourse.

Lifting the masks of whiteness and Amerindianness (Otherness) in the text, it traces the agony of presence and active resistance of the Other as process (Othering), giving critical consideration of the Carta a completely new focus."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-124) and index.