Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a
classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of
fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works.
Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a
doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema
reflects the gingerly way that mid-nineteenth cenury Brazil dealt with
race mixture and multicultural experience. Precisely because of its
nineteenth-century romanticism, Iracema strongly contributed to a
Brazilian sense of nationhood--contemporary Brazilian writers and
literary critics still cite it as a foundation for their own work.
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