Title: José de Alencar
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Brazilian literature, History and criticism, Nationalism in literature
People: José Martiniano de Alencar (1829-1877)
Time periods: 19th century