José de Alencar: sou americano para o que der e vier (original) (raw)

This thesis aims at presenting the novelist José de Alencar as the founder of the american novel in the Brazil, reading his novels, prefaces and notes that he left in his narratives, on the bias at an american look. In this way, the concept of americanism will make possible the reading of Alencar's books in the ambit of the identity negotiations. For this proposal, concepts that are under the cover of americanism as in-between, The Masters and The Slaves, tropicalism, transculturation, indigenism will be analysed in Alencar's novels, because these concepts cross themselves in the construction of a discourse that tries to re-invent and to explain America continuously. At debating these themes, we will postulate that the figure of the novelist as the one who first defended, in Brazil, the construction of a novel of Américas, that proposed to tell the slow gestation of the american people in his literature project. Alencar also was the first to auto-define himself as american publicaly in the newspaper O Globo. The americanism feeling in Alencar will be verified in dialogues established, by his novels, with other novelists and writers of the continent. All of them are thinking of a construction of american identity in their texts.

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