By Kristin E. Pitt (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230115349
ISBN-13: 9780230115347
ISBN-10: 1349290637
ISBN-13: 9781349290635
This ebook contextualizes twenty first century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention inside a ancient framework of inter-American narratives. analyzing quite a number resources, Pitt unearths a power concentrate on the physique that hyperlinks modern practices of political terror to matters approximately corporality and sovereignty.
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Rhetorical turns do not resolve tensions between individual independence and national cohesion. Running under the surface of a presumably neatly mapped nation, populated by proud subjects who love both the land and their freedom, time and again surges a contradictory narrative that questions the integrity of a nation founded upon metaphors of romanticized space and territorialized bodies. This counternarrative challenges the nation to reevaluate the violent, material consequences of romantic metaphorical associations by exposing a nation-state populated by a few powerful men who enforce their will at the expense of the thousands who suffer and die without ever reaping the benefits of the national community they are said to constitute.
Moacir is clearly not the first person to be born in this parcel of land that is home to his mother, her Tabajara ancestors, and generations of other indigenous peoples. However, these territorial predecessors are not Brazilians, an identity that Moacir takes on only through the combined inheritance of his father’s Portuguese social, political, religious, and cultural legacy and his mother’s indigenous ties to the territory’s natural environment. At the beginning of the romance, Iracema is presented through a series of comparisons to her environment, furthering the narrative’s Buried Bodies 35 metaphorical claim that Iracema is the land and nature of Brazil and encouraging an understanding of the Brazilian nation that places an Edenic, synergetic association with the land at the heart of national identity.
Iracema and Martim’s son is introduced as a founding figure of the future nation, labeled the first Cearense. Remarkably, he disappears in the last chapter of the romance. After Iracema’s death, Martim travels to Portugal with Moacir and his dog Japi. Four years later, Martim returns with many “guerreiros de sua raça” [“warriors of his race”] and a “sacerdote de sua religião” (81) [“priest of their religion” (112)]. Moacir is not mentioned, even in passing. The romance also makes no mention of any caretakers, 46 Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas whose apparent absence would make raising the child in Brazil quite difficult for Martim, now a widower and nearly always at war.
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