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ALENCAR (José de). IRACEMA: Lenda do Ceará. S. Paulo. 1913. - ALENCAR (José de) IRACEMA: Lenda do Ceará . S. Paulo: C.Teixeira & C.ª, 1913. 234 pp.; 195 mm. Iracema (1865) is the masterpiece of Brazilian romantic Indianism, a founding allegory of national identity in which José de Alencar narrates, in poetic prose, the love between the Tabajara Indian Iracema and the Portuguese colonizer Martim, on the coast of 17th-century Ceará, from which the symbolic son of the fusion between the two peoples would be born. Good edition, with the reproduction of the prologue of the first edition. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate