A Fatura poética de A confederação dos tamoios e as ideologias da elite imperial brasileira

Abstract

This paper presents a reading of the epic A confederação dos tamoios, by Gonçalves de Magalhães, relating the poem with some views on Brazil which come from the imperial elite at the time of its composition and publication. With this movement the intention is to avoid the judgement of Jose de Alencar, who sees the work only as bad product of an inept poet, and to recover the complexity of the task that Magalhães set himself. After posing the issue and placing Magalhães in his social enviroment, the paper makes a brief description of the ideas of society that emerged from conservative and moderate liberal ideologies, which are stylized in the epic, to analyze some important aspects of the work. The focus is projected on the invention of the poem, the scene of Jagoanharo’s dream, in the sixth chapter, and the narrator.