Abstract

Guzman traces the tensions between the symbolic renderings of Indian-ness and the lived experience of indigeneity across an eclectic array of materials ranging from literary texts to archival documents, from popular print and televisual media to an indigenist opera.

Highlights

  • In my view, the two most compelling case studies of the book are presented in chapters 2 and 4

  • The increased popularization of an idealized Indian through “fables of benevolent colonialism and cordial miscegenation” represented by Il Guarani occurred precisely when indigenous people were subjected to tremendous violence

  • The contradiction between the idealization and destruction of native Brazilians, Guzmán suggests, reflects the disturbing cultural logic of national development—a logic in which indigenous people are called to play a hyperbolic symbolic role precisely when they are most forcefully sacrificed in the service of “order and progress.”

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Summary

Introduction

The two most compelling case studies of the book are presented in chapters 2 and 4. Tracy Devine Guzmán’s excellent book begins with a discussion of “brincar de índio,” or “playing indian,” an expression that at first refers to child’s play.

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