Para além do segredo da Jurema: outras faces de Iracema

Abstract

In writing the novel Iracema, Alencar inspired himself in popular culture, searching to describe the brazilian native indian traditions, the physical constitutions of the indians and of their European colonizers, the breeding of races, miscegenation, all these factors, however, elaborated in a way to corroborate a very definite ideological position. It’s interesting to keep in mind the fact that José de Alencar exerted a profound interchange between popular and erudite cultures, that being the foundation of his masterpiece, - the novel Iracema – which generated several outcomes, since its first edition was issued, over one hundred and forty years ago.