Exiles, Allies, Rebels: Brazil's Indianist Movement, Indigenist Politics, and the Imperial Nation-State

by David Treece

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311250
• ISBN13: 9780313311253
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"