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Exiles, Allies, Rebels - Brazil's Indianist Movement, Indigenist Politics, and the Imperial Nation-State (Hardcover, New)
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Exiles, Allies, Rebels - Brazil's Indianist Movement, Indigenist Politics, and the Imperial Nation-State (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first global study of the single most important
intellectual and artistic movement in Brazilian cultural history
before Modernism. The Indianist movement, under the direct
patronage of the Emperor Pedro II, was a major pillar of the
Empire's project of state-building, involving historians, poets,
playwrights and novelists in the production of a large body of work
extending over most of the nineteenth century. Tracing the parallel
history of official indigenist policy and Indianist writing, Treece
reveals the central role of the Indian in constructing the
self-image of state and society under Empire. He aims to
historicize the movement, examining it as a literary phenomenon,
both with its own invented traditions and myths, and standing at
the interfaces between culture and politics, between the Indian as
imaginary and real. As this book demonstrates, the Indianist
tradition was not merely an example of Romantic exoticism or
escapism, recycling infinite variations on a single model of the
Noble Savage imported from the European imaginary. Instead, it was
a complex, evolving tradition, inextricably enmeshed with the
contemporary political debates on the status of the indigenous
communities and their future within the post-colonial state. These
debates raised much wider questions about the legacy of colonial
rule-the persistence of authoritarian models of government, the
social and political marginalization of large numbers of free but
landless Brazilians, and above all the maintenance of slavery. The
Indianist "stage" offered the Indian alternately as tragic victim
and exile, as rebel and outlaw, as alien to the social pact, as
mother or protector of the post-colonial Brazilianfamily, or as
self-sacrificing ally and "voluntary slave."
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