TY - BOOK AU - Alencar,José Martiniano de TI - Iracema: com uma noticia biographica do auctor AV - PQ PY - 2022/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Race relations -- Fiction KW - Tupi Indians -- Fiction KW - Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Fiction KW - Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iracema; Release date is 2022-03-30; Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.); Originally published; Portugal: COMPANHIA NACIONAL EDITORA, 1890 N2 - "Iracema" by José de Alencar is a novel published in 1865. Set during Brazil's colonial period, the story follows a forbidden romance between Iracema, a Tabajara indigenous woman, and Martim, a Portuguese colonist allied with her people's enemies. Their union produces Moacir, symbolically portrayed as the first true Brazilian. Through this legendary tale, Alencar reimagines the founding of Ceará and explores the cultural and racial mixing that shaped Brazilian identity, blending indigenous tradition with European influence in an allegorical narrative about colonization. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012371865 UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67740 ER -