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- Title
Mito e história no "romance épico" Simá de Lourenço da Silva Araújo e Amazonas.
- Authors
Pacheco da Costa, Daniel Padilha
- Abstract
This paper proposes to characterize Simá: a historical novel of the upper Amazon (1857), by Lourenço da Silva Araújo e Amazonas, as an "Epic Novel", which is defined as a variation of the historical novel distinct from the hegemonic school represented by José de Alencar. This novel, whose literary models are the Iliad and the Aeneid, elects the abduction of the mixed race Simá -- the "Rio Negro's Helen" --, as the immediate cause of the Lamalonga Rebellion (1757). The novel tells, in the historic sphere, the massacre of indigenous Manau nation by the Portuguese navy and, in the individual sphere, the tragic destiny of the heroine, which is presented as an innocent victim of the conflict between Portugal and Spain. The form of this pioneering novel of Brazilian Indianism is, paradoxically, inseparable from that used by earlier epics, contrary to what Lukacs' definition of a historical novel suggests.
- Subjects
ABDUCTION; MASSACRES; BUTHIDAE; HEGEMONY; HISTORICAL fiction; ATROCITIES
- Publication
Dialogos (14159945), 2019, Vol 23, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
1415-9945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/dialogos.v23i2.46096