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‘Splendid testemunhos’: Documenting Atrocities, Bodies, and Desire in Roger Casement’s Black Diaries
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The translation of a major Amerindian myth The translation of a major Amerindian myth
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Yurupary’s first rendition: from social metaphor to romantic literary text Yurupary’s first rendition: from social metaphor to romantic literary text
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“Diaboleries”: the history prior to Yurupary’s literarization “Diaboleries”: the history prior to Yurupary’s literarization
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The Spanish-language Yurupary: legend, epic, or pre-Columbian poem? The Spanish-language Yurupary: legend, epic, or pre-Columbian poem?
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Academic nostalgia and literary nationalization Academic nostalgia and literary nationalization
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The Western ‘Baptism’ of Yurupary: Reception and Rewritings of an Amazonian Foundational Myth
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Published:June 2019
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Abstract
The myth of the Yurupary [yërëparí] is the foundational story of a patriarchal Amazonian religious system, and was widely spread and highly diversified among the language families of the Tupí-Guaraní, Tukano and Arawak from the Vaupés River in the northeast Amazon. In the midst of both Missionary expansion in the region at the end of the 19th century and capitalist penetration, the Italian jurist, geographer and explorer Ermanno Stradelli published an account of the Yurupary entitled “Leggenda dell’ Jurupary” (1890). In this essay Bolte visibilizes the political, literary and cultural mediations between the myth —inaccessible in its “pure” form— and the reappropriation it suffered by missionaries and local and European travellers during the 19th century. In view of the highly debatable nature of a historical-literary event such as that of a non-Western story being put into writing by European hands, Bolte proposes that we should systematically accept that we have no way of reaching the Yurupary story in its original form, prior to its Westernization. We should also bear in mind that Stradelli’s version is a mere selection of a great variety of episodes from different oral stories, and even different cycles of Amazonian myths.
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