A filha dos sertões era feliz: indianismo romântico e idealização no romance Iracema, de José de Alencar

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the character Iracema, highlighting the idealization processes sustained by romantic Indianism in the novel Iracema, by José de Alencar. The study of the character is justified due to the way Alencar represents Iracema and how he submits it to the conditions of Nature. For the romantic, Nature is the defining part of human creation, therefore the supporting link of the artistic form. The methodology is anchored in the studies of history and literature, from a qualitative research, bibliographic nature, as well as the investigations of the theory of literature, strand of problematizations of the literary text with a view to the construction of person. of narrative syntax. The theoretical course is marked by the studies of Candido (1968, 1999, 2000), Moisés (1995, 1997a, 1997b, 1997c), Bosi (1999), Barbieri (2013), Proença Filho (1978), Roncari (2002), which relativizes the analytical conceptions put in this work, which is drawn from a qualitative approach to research and the bibliographic and documentary types of research. The data reveal the construction of an Indian idealized by romantic characteristics marked by hyperbole, which emerges as a figure of common language due to its character of catalysis and intensification of romantic conflicts present in romantic literature. Thus, the figure of the Indian is described in order to approximate the characteristics of the white man, reinforcing the path of the idelizing style that assumed Romanticism.