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A Sacrificial Myth
2015
Overview
It is characteristic of the historical imagination that it creates myths that are often more illustrative of the times in which they were created than they are of the remote universe they were invented to explain.
Accepting this proposition, I will take on the somewhat risky task of revisiting a commonplace of comparative literature scholars, who interpret Brazilianindianismo(Indianism) with reference to European Romanticism’s exploration of national origins. There, in Europe, we have medieval figures and scenes, whereas here in Brazil we see an indigenous world just as it first appeared to the surprised discoverers. Both here and there
