Significações históricas do "índio": leituras da mídia impressa e da literatura.

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2005

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The subject of this dissertation is the historical meaning of the Indian, found in many cultural products as literature and press media. In order to meet the first image of the Indians in the national imaginary, the first chapter brings a critical view of the indianist literature produced in the XIX century by José de Alencar, that is the romances Ubirajara, O Guarani and Iracema. In opposite of these images, the second chapter analyses articles published in 2000 on newspapers as A Tarde, Folha de São Paulo and Jornal do Brasil, that bring contemporary questions related to the Indian people, especially the speeches and images that emerged from the commemorative scene of Brazil?s fifth century anniversary. The third and last chapter analyses how the anthropology has tried to modify the Indian?s image that has been consecrate in national imaginary, so the importance of the studies about the Indian communities that has had as a consequence the changing of the way to represent the Indians and try to solve the main problems related to relationship between Indians and the rest of the national society (this includes the analytical field). For this proposal, the romance Maíra, written by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, shows one of the most interesting narratives, concerning about the anthropological work as well as representing a contemporary question related to Indian ethnics. There has been made several speeches about the Indian, developed to create a image repertory with a strong meaning in Brazilian imaginary, that means a complex and semantic field expressed by many ways and that has real implications related to the moment that they are mobilised. The historical process that has originated this construction involves power relations that allowed your realization and efficacy.

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literatura brasileira literatura imagens índios mídia

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