The ethos of Ceci: from girl of the court to new world woman

Authors

  • Flávio Aguiar

Keywords:

Romantism, Brazilian Literature, Woman, Transculturation

Abstract

This paper analyses the construction of the eyes of Ceci, a character from José de Alencar’s novel O Guarani, as a distinction from the other novels of the Romanticism. This characteristic makes this novel a unique piece, although its tópos was to recover the primitive (the Indian) as a basis for the nationality and its cultural expression (the new language). From the eyes of the girl who finds herself as a woman, and of a woman of the Portuguese court who finds herself as a New World woman, and that the Indian emerges as the source of the new race and culture.