Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza

Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza

One objective of this comparative study between two scenes of death in the indigenous novels Maí­ra, by Brazilian Darcy Ribeiro, and Huasipungo, by Ecuadorian Jorge Icaza, is to disclose differing notions of death: the white European culture’s and the American native’s. Another objective is to show...

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Main Author: Paulo Sérgio Marques
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2007-06-01
Series:Gragoatá
Subjects:
Literatura brasileira
Litera¬tura hispano-Americana
Indigenismo
Mito e Narrativa
Online Access:http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/284
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Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza
Gragoatá
Literatura brasileira
Litera¬tura hispano-Americana
Indigenismo
Mito e Narrativa
author_facet Paulo Sérgio Marques
author_sort Paulo Sérgio Marques
title Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza
title_short Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza
title_full Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza
title_fullStr Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza
title_full_unstemmed Visions of death in the indigenous novels in Darcy Ribeiro and Jorge Icaza
title_sort visions of death in the indigenous novels in darcy ribeiro and jorge icaza
publisher Universidade Federal Fluminense
series Gragoatá
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publishDate 2007-06-01
description One objective of this comparative study between two scenes of death in the indigenous novels Maí­ra, by Brazilian Darcy Ribeiro, and Huasipungo, by Ecuadorian Jorge Icaza, is to disclose differing notions of death: the white European culture’s and the American native’s. Another objective is to show the way they expresses a peculiar weltans­chuung to each culture: the Christian and pagan, and the settlers and settled. The settlers’ views about death in Icaza’s Huasipungo perform as objects of separation and hierarchy, while the nati­ves’ views in Ribeiro’s Maíra appear as processes of communion and participation. Comparisons between each conception make use of anthropo­logical and archetypal criticism methodologies from the theories of Humberto Maturana, Gilbert Durand, and Joseph Campbell, among others.
topic Literatura brasileira
Litera¬tura hispano-Americana
Indigenismo
Mito e Narrativa
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