Índios e Poetas: o Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro e a invenção do Indianismo Literário 1808- 1860

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Gonçalves Dias, o índio e a liberdade

This article presents a reading of the poem “O canto do guerreiro” written by Antonio Gonçalves Dias. The aim is to show the existence of a dialogue between the literary‘representation of the Brazilian‘indigenous and the concept of natural man, by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Going beyond a reading upon a romantic nationalism view, such dialogue makes explicit the poet’ conscience of his hole in Brazilian Romanticism and, at same time, gives a universal dimension to his poetic work.