O mito da formação do povo brasileiro em Iracema, de José de Alencar

Abstract

This research deals with a study about the myth of the foundation of the Brazilian people in the work Iracema, by José de Alencar. Thus, it aims to analyze how the fusion of the real with the fictitious in the work is processed, based on Aristotelian mimesis and likelihood. For this, it was initially made from a bibliographic review that covers the historical-literary context of the author and the work and its representation in the literature, which corroborates the understanding, at the end, of the mythical Alencarian construction from Iracema's narrative structure. Given this, it appears that the novel mimics the colonial period of Brazil and the miscegenation of the Brazilian people, singularized from the figures of Iracema, Martim and Moacir.