Abstract
In this essay, I intend to examine how the Brazilian author Ana Miranda creatively recon? structs Brazil's colonial past in her novel Desmundo (1996).' In this work, Miranda thematizes and attempts to come to terms with the problematic cultural heritage of Brazil. In Desmundo, this legacy is embodied in the figure of Oribela, the protagonist of the novel. Oribela, and Brazil itself, are illustrated as the products of a conflictive transculturation.2 In this sense, Desmundo is representative of a certain trend in contemporary historical novels that have been published in Latin America in recent years. Kimberle L?pez notes that various present-day authors that rewrite the continent's colonial past fully acknowledge their European cultural heritage while conversely rejecting the violence of colonial project through the use of marginalized European protagonists in their fictions.3
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