The exploratory reflections of the colonization in Gonçalves Dias’ “O Canto do Piaga”: a postcolonial approach
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2011v21p6Keywords:
Post colonial literature, Contact zone, OtheringAbstract
This article discusses the posture of the colonizer towards the Native people of South America through the analysis of the poem “O Canto do Piaga” (The Medicine Man’s Chant), focusing on the way in which this relationship was harmful to the Native people. The colonizers saw in the old colony a place with a great potential for exploitation, both material and human. Its consequence was the underestimation of the original people from South America, thus generating a very negative view of the colonizers regarding the Native’s attitudes, which had encompassed many fields of knowledge, including arts as in the case of the analyzed poem.References
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