DebatePapo "New World Monsters in De Gestis Mendi de Saa", com Érika Valdivieso

Divulgamos o DebatePapo New World Monsters in De Gestis Mendi de Saa a ser realizado no dia 29 de março de 2021, as 16h. O evento contará com a presença de Érika Valdivieso (Department of Classics, Princeton University) e será moderado por Leni Ribeiro Leite (PPGHis/PPGL/Ufes). A palestra será ministrada em inglês e transmitida na página do YouTube do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Ufes. Abaixo divulgamos o resumo do que será abordado durante a palestra.

José de Anchieta's De Gestis Mendi de Saa is the first Latin epic of the Americas and part of a corpus of Latin literature from the colonial period. As the title suggests, the poem describes the deeds of the third governor-general of Brazil, Mem de Sá (1500-1572). After a brief introduction to the text and its context, this talk will examine Virgil's role in the poem's depiction of New World 'monsters'. Comparison between De Gestis and the Aeneid shows how Virgil contributed to the poem's presentation of indigenous Brazilians and French Huguenots as non-humans, charting the constitutive relationship between classical texts and  settler colonialism.

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