Native texts of the Amazonian rain forest have been viewed as myth
or ethnographic matter-the raw material of literature-rather than
as significant works in their own right. But in this unprecedented
study, Lzcia Sa approaches indigenous texts as creative works
rather than source material.
Disclosing the existence and nature of longstanding, rich, and
complex Native American literary and intellectual traditions that
have typically been neglected or demeaned by literary criticism,
Rain Forest Literatures analyzes four indigenous cultural
traditions: the Carib, Tupi-Guarani, Upper Rio Negro, and Western
Arawak. In each case, Sa considers principal native texts and,
where relevant, their publication history. She offers a historical
overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream
Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons
with native sources and making close analyses of major instances,
such as Mario de Andrade's classic Macunaima (1928) and Mario
Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller (1986).
A redrawing of the lineage of Brazilian and Spanish-American
literatures, this book advocates an understanding of the
relationships between cultures as a process of "transculturation"
rather than "acculturation"-a process that emphasizes the
often-ignored impact of the peripheral culture on the one that
assumes dominance.
Lzcia Sa is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at
Stanford University.
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