O indianismo romântico como primitivismo americano: o caso Gonçalves Dias

Abstract

When compared to the colonialist poetic production, one can see that Gonçalves Dias´ indianist poetry promotes a kind of ideological inversion, since he narrates events of the Brazilian colonization period not from the point of view of the colonizers as the colonial poetry used to, but from the perspective of the people who had been suffering a growing process of destruction. If one follows this ideological inversion, his indianist poetry also proposes an inversion of the aesthetic point of view. In this aspect, the musicality, the structural simplicity and the use of Indian-like lexicon are seen as an attempt not only to break with the strict classical rules, but also to make the poetic structure similar to the primitive simplicity of the characters he portrays.