The ethos of Ceci: from girl of the court to new world woman
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Romantism, Brazilian Literature, Woman, TransculturationAbstract
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.Downloads
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